Getting Discouraged with raw cards

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Posted By: Peter_Spaeth

"Thus, I am at the point where I believe that any UNSLABBED card has "something" wrong with it that kept the seller from having it slabbed and having the value increased."

I personally have the same reservations about buying unslabbed even cards later than prewar, but at the same time PSA is slabbing high numbers of new cards every day the majority of which must be "good," and they can't all be resubmits looking for a higher grade, so where ARE they coming from. I believe that even with the advent of ebay, there are still a lot of local type dealers and shop owners who just don't do grading. A good friend of mine who is a major national dealer keeps amassing a huge inventory of PSA 8s (ok mostly 50s and 60s but still...) so he is getting the raw cards from somewhre.