I give up on grading

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Posted By: T206Collector

If the population numbers were an actual reflection of the number of those cards in that condition in the market, you would be right on. But those population numbers do not reflect that at all. Indeed, especially with pre-war, you would have to include all SGC and GAI cards along with the PSA cards, to start. And then you'd have to have some understanding of how many ungraded samples of those cards were out there. Since no one knows the answer to that, it's all a big guess. And the numbers do not even provide you with any accurate direction there.

All you have been seeing is people without an understanding of supply and demand thinking that if there are only two PSA 10 Nap Lajoie Throwing cards graded by PSA, then there must only be two Nap Lajoie Throwing cards in that condition in existence, when, in reality ... no one really knows. And plenty of people on this board have and will chime in that they have minty mint tobacco cards that they keep unslabbed -- and there are a lot of these collectors, perhaps more than the fools who still rely on PSA (as opposed to SGC or GAI) to grade their pre-war cards.