Is the Grading System Broken?

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Posted By: T206Collector

...but also, as I have said before, as long as SGC guarantees that your card has not been altered, with a money-backed guarantee, then any future discovery that your card has been altered will be remedied.

The day that SGC turns away a refund in the face of persuasive evidence of an alteration is the day we are in trouble. And when that happens, I do think there will be a market for another grading company that stands by its guarantees.

Having a card slabbed by SGC today does not mean that it will make sense for SGC to have slabbed it 5, 10 or more years from now. It just provides a relatively trustworthy, money-backed guaranteed, opinion as to the condition of a card. If that changes, another grading company will crop up that will satisfy the hole in the market left by a formerly trustworthy source.

In my opinion, there will only be a problem if and when there exist no third party grading companies with a money backed guarantee that means something. SGC fills that hole in the consumer market today.