Card Grading Is Upside Down

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Posted By: Joe D.

"Can you imagine a catalog description: "this is a little better than a 13, but not quite a 14"? We'll all end up in the loony bin."

-- Barry, I would argue that we may very well belong in the loony bin anyway!



Honestly - I don't care much about the number grades themselves... and completely agree with Josh that you should buy the card not the holder. I go more for eye appeal than anything else. And if a good eye appeal card has a low grade, thats a jackpot for me because I get to buy it at a discounted price. What bothers the graders doesn't always bother me... and sometimes what bothers me - they completely overlook (poor registration).

My opinion was more or less pointing out a shortcoming of the grading system.

I would guess that more than 50%, heck maybe more than 60-70% of the raw prewar cards that exist would grade an SGC 10 or PSA 1 for technical reasons. Lumping the vast majority of cards out there into one grade is what I call a shortcoming in the system. just my opinion.