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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

I truly think that a Professional grader should know what they're grading, even if the guy submitting it had it wrong. But it seems that the grading is done by folks who could do with further education (oh, I so wanted to type that they were uneducated).

Again, the way to aviod this mess is to quit grading cards.

No one is evil if they buy a slabbed card. Buy it and help that little fellow escape, he's committed no crime.

And if someone REALLY likes the way the cards look and display in big fancy, cumbersome holders, then go get some holders like that and slab them yourself. Then all of your cards would look pretty in the big holders, much more affordably. And no doubt, you'd correctly label the cards.

I find the big holders bulky and cumbersome. Seems like what would happen if I got a divorce and married Julia Roberts, she lives in LA and I'm in Kentucky, we'd never see each other, a barrier between us, couldn't touch... I prefer being able to hold history, instead of holding something that encapsulates history.

If I'm out in left field on this, at least I avoid the heartache described above when the slabber-guys screw up.

Frank.