Some Reflefctions on an August Afternoon

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Posted By: honus3415

Well dusk has given way to darkness and the crickets are chirping.

Thank goodness those darn cicadas have gone to sleep or moved on your way.

All I was saying above is that I would think the people playing PSAGAISGC Holdem' for $5000 or more a pop would demand making sure they weren't playing with marked cards when it comes to grades.

Look at this board, it it filled with questionable scans of graded cards from all the leaders....and those are just scans.....can you imagine how many more you would question if you were looking at magnified slabs in real life?

Would a computerized system do better grading?.......No...grades are the problem to begin with because they represent no hard facts!!!

What a computerized "fact chart" would allow, is each person their own opinion based on facts.... such as the "card measurements", which seems to be one of the biggest issues and rightly so.

What is your acceptable size variation limits??? 1/128".... 1/64".... 1/32"... 0...??? Now are you sure your grader of choice agrees??? I'm just not confident from some of the examples I've seen from each of these companies that I would want to risk thousands of dollars without a second opinion based pure facts.....and this would be one of the easiest facts for a computer system to determine.

Well I'll close and choose to drop this issue at this point. I'll leave this problem to this hobby's investors, as I'm a collector that is just happy to be able to afford a genuine unaltered card even if it is slabbed a "1" and looks small (they are so hard to measure in these holders).

It's late and Hal's asleep with visions of cases dancing through his head....and this is about the time Leon would answer my emails and I wonder what he was still doing up.

Hoping the winds in tomorrow's sunlight brings everyone a new cardboard smile they haven't seen before.