Larry Fritsch grading- examples

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Posted By: warshawlaw

Let's face it, grading isn't rocket science and it hasn't really changed over the last 20 years in the collector's grades. What has changed is the money. Some of you may recall (I do) getting better cards than advertised from mail order houses like Card Collectors Company back when cards were not valuable. There was no incentive to cheat. Old school graders always seem to grade their stuff 2 grades too high but your stuff a grade too low. It can be very lucrative, buying vg-ex cards as vg and selling them as ex, even with the returns. It isn't that the folks at Fritsch or other overgraders cannot see the flaws or learn to grade accurately (after all, with 15 minutes of orientation PSA's pimple-faced Orange County teenagers are professional graders ); they are moving product in volume and don't really care whether they are right because they know that most of the customers who need the cards for their sets will eat the overgrades.