True Population of Substantial Cards

[Republicaninmass]

Originally Posted by Golfcollector

The "crack and resubmit" was much more prevelant 5+ years ago (more like 10+ years ago) when grading fees were a mere fraction of what they are today.

Just my $.02

Grading also seems to be tougher. Unless you have a great specimen, or one that can be "soaked in water" (ahem) cracking won't help

[benedini]

I wasn't thinking specifically about today but even cards that were graded 20 years ago and cracked 15. They still show in pop report. Thanks all for responses.

[steve B]

When I was looking at T206 pop reports what I saw for common backs was that HOF cards or more popular cards populations were about double that of a similar common. That is probably off for the very top cards in a set, which may get graded far more often.

[ullmandds]

The collecting/investing in vintage cards is an "imperfect" market...all information is not known and assumptions/guesses have to be made.

Unlike some modern collecting where artificial "rarities" are created. In this situation numbered cards create more of a perfect market situation where the # available copies is presumed to be known.

Maybe this is part of the reason modern shiny numbered crap is so popular????