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Originally Posted by packs
A margin of error doesn't really have a place in card collecting. You would have to take it upon yourself to decide that a grade is subjective. I don't need a guy to tell me my card is in "Fair" condition with a margin of error between "Poor" and "Very Good".
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Many collectors, including many on this board, are already keenly aware of the margin of error and look at the cards themselves when pricing and buying. Just as many autograph collectors educate themselves, and don't rely only on a TPA LOA because they know TPAs make mistakes. That was an integral part of my advice to the proverbial new collector, along with buy cards that look nice to you, keep mid/lower grade cards and bypass that Gem Mint 10 nonsense.
However, doing such things as registry numbers charts and rankings are, quite simply, a joke. There's nothing wrong with it as a game, but people actually take it as serious and it effects values and prices.