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Posted By: Jay Miller

Jeff--I think if all the cards in a collectors set were slabbed by the same company already then registry would only be an added benefit. However,for sets in the traditional sense (eg 1959 Topps), many people do not grade all the cards, just the stars. For constructed sets, like HOF rookie cards, this forces the collector to grade all the cards through one service in order to register the set. It can also lead to regrading and frequent submitting of cards to try to get the average grade of a set (the basis for set registry) higher. This has nothing to do with altruism on the part of SGC, this is dollars and cents, pure and simple.