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Posted By: Joe Pelaez

"Absolutely not. SGC are human, but willing to acknowledge their humanity and make it right with their buy-back guarantee."
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Blessed be for the humanitarians at SGC.
We can now safely say that the Union, and the baseball card investments are preserved.

A little background is in order.
Before the grading humanitarians migrated from the Numismatic Market to the fertile fields of baseball cardboards (AKA the hobby), the collectors and dealers graded their own cards.
They looked at, and handled enough cards so that they were able to grade their own.
They read the Lipsets, and Heitman's plus dig deep into their research.
No PC's, therefore it wasn't easy to pick brains like it's customary here.
There was no getting away from doing leg work, and exchanging thoughts without the help of a PC.

The problem was, and it still is:
That Beauty Was in the Eye's of the Beholder.
Dealers and collectors were not always in agreement on the grades.
Therefore, "Abargainigan" was the order of the day at shows.
You know what, the give and take was fun.

So here comes the slab humanitarians, after screwing up the numismatic hobby offering the card board collectors the perfect way to grade Sides and Corners.

I'll be the first to agree that they were great with Sides and Corners.
They were good.
They were pretty, but guess what?
Why the question by da slabheads of Who's Da Betta Slabba?

We're back to the old school collectors.

The only difference is that besides knowing how to grade their own cards, due to their many trials and errors, they also are more likely better at spotting an altered, or doctored card.
It took Mark Macrae, and I a long time to convince a mile high dealer at the Texas national in 1990, that he had a non Kosher card.

The slabber contribution to my cardboard hobby is that they helped make it an Investment Game. ... enjoy the game.