Grading hits home

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Posted By: dan mckee

Well Barry, you are an icon to dad and I. Anyway, you are absolutely correct! Though I think the new INVESTORS not necessarily collectors, have supported this pathetic change. People (and I will be nice here) are buying the grade or number on the slab instead of the card, that is the problem. I watched Bill Huggins pull a 1963 topps common out of his $4 binder and have it slabbed at the PSA booth in Chantilly some years back. It came back a 9 and he sold it at his table for $400. Now I don't care what that card slabbed at, a 1963 common is worth $4 no matter what. I just hope that one day, the bottom drops out of this pathetic course and the morons carrying around the 9's and 10's they paid a thousand times more than they are worth, become only what the card is worth again.