Card Grading Is Upside Down

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Posted By: E, Daniel

if you want to use a subjective (attempting its best to be objective) third party appraisal system, then you have to just let go. Just let it go, don't try and play uber grader and vex over every frayed edge and print dot, accept that you are playing a game in which every participant has their role and enjoy it..........or else smash up the slabs and go birthday suit.

If you understand that you will percieve condition differently than I and every other collector, then why get all hung up over what a grader thinks? If it looks like they've made an egregious error, then resubmit and in all likelihood it will be rectified. If after another examination the opinion remains the same, then in all likelihood it is you who is making wishful observations and determinations.

And by tinkering any more with the grading breakdowns you will simply create more areas for disagreement. My wife sees the color yellow differently than I do, and where orange enters is an endless debate. Whose right?

A real waste of brain cells as I see it.
Play the game or don't, but gee, these aren't nucleotides were identifying, its cardboard.




Daniel