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Originally Posted by parkplace33
I guess this the piece I can't wrap my head around. If PSA moved the goalpots, why do people continue to submit to them? They graded more than 1 million cards in December, so they certainly aren't hurting for business.
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Maybe to answer your question more specifically, while I can't speak to everyone else, for me personally, I use PSA to grade a few last pieces that help to complete some master player sets that I'm working on, like my Master Mays or Master McCovey sets, usually only for items that are virtually impossible to find on the market in graded form, so I often end up picking them up raw and then getting them graded.
I suppose the other reason why I use them is for some oddball sets where I picked up some raw pieces, and I've decided to start a set on it, like the 1973 Topps Comics, where I recently picked up 23 of 24, or for the 1969 Globe Imports Checkerboard Backs, where I'm just a few pieces short of having a complete set now.
In both cases, if a piece grades one or two slots lower than it should have, I'm not sure that it bothers me that much, simply because these pieces are only going into my PC, and because the items are so difficult to find in any grade that just having one graded is good enough for me. And for the most part, while we all love to complain about TPGs, if I'm being honest, I'm not convinced that the grades I've been getting are really all that low.