Yet Another Grading Issue

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Posted By: barrysloate

Are you asking me to name names on the board? Would you? I generally find all raw cards to be somewhat overgraded. I also find it to be a little worse of a transgression than puffery. When something is called rare, or I see words such as "extraordinary" or "exceptional" in a description, my eyes glaze over and I pay absolutely no attention to them. But when I see terms such as "very good" or "excellent" I feel a need to quantify that in some way. No reason why an auction house can't grade raw cards closer to the way a grading service will, since they know a great number of them are headed that way anyway. There are always aspects of the hobby that need work, and this is one of them.