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T206CollectorI was disagreeing with your statement that "This is the reason why slabbed cards bring more money which is sad" which followed a paragraph about lazy collectors using slabbing to authenticate an item. That is, I disagree that this is why slabbed cards bring more money. I believe that slabbing and, indeed, vintage card collecting today is heavily driven by the internet. I became a graded card fan as I began to make expensive purchases of T206 cards on ebay. I paid $500 for a Walter Johnson portrait, advertised as "without any creases." Well, guess what -- creases! Fortunately the seller refunded my money. Now, did the seller intentionally hide the crease? Probably not. But I found it pretty quickly, and SGC would have, too. That is why there are often no returns on graded cards -- because you know what you are getting when you familiarize yourself with how a particular grading company grades.
Paul (aka T206Collector)