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Posted By: leon

My guess is that Mike didn't do all, or most of, the grading after GAI got on their feet initially. I would be surprised if he did a lot of grading, actually. It was either 1 or 2 Nationals ago that I spoke with him at length about GAI, in person. It was my impression that he was going to get back into the actual grading of the cards as he reads different message boards and does know what goes on and what people are saying, which leads to business-good or bad. I don't know any of this to be absolute but I believe that is what he told me. It was in my questioning of him (in a friendly manner)about the seemingly lack of quality control in the grading dept that prompted his response. I think if you search long enough on this board you can probably see where I spoke about it right after our conversation. I am too lazy to search but what I believe I remember is above. GAI cards do tend to sell at a discount to the other top grading companies and that can't be good for them. While on the topic I think it would be great for the top 3-4 grading companies to get together and form a grading committee about what constitutes a certain grade and so forth. Maybe we could lead the charge in pushing for it? (that's a joke) ..regards