Population Reports

[tbob]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

To me the cross and crack games have made the pop reports pretty meaningless for several years.

Absolutely Jeff.

[glchen]

FYI, low pop figures should be fairly accurate, however, since it's the rare collector who will crossover a Pop 1 of 1 card. Still, as mentioned, raw cards still exist, so those low pop numbers can change as more and more cards get graded.

[M's_Fan]

The cross and crack games have made population reports meaningless. I agree.

But the grading companies still don't communicate when they cross over a card, supposedly to protect their percieved market share.

But by not doing this they have destroyed the meaning of the pop reports, so it doesn't make sense. It would seem that to protect the integrity of the pop report, and to protect the integrity of their percieved market share, they should share information, or else the whole thing is pointless and meaningless.

It just doesn't make sense to me that the grading companies go to all this trouble but then undermine themselves by not sharing information when they cross over cards.

Of course this couldn't prevent someone cracking and resubmitting, but it would be a big improvement. The high dollar cards are rarely cracked and resubmitted due to the big risk, unless it is obviously undergraded.

[deadballera]

I have only sent one card of my collection to be graded. Most of them are raw cards...which will not show on any report.

The only thing keeping them from getting graded is just the expense to do it.