Posted By:
Eric BrehmFor PSA: stop changing the rules in the middle of the game. Get it right the first time.
(1) Their decision to start classifying T206's by back type has thrown confusion into the population reports, which now consist mostly of cards with "Unknown" back. So a pose with a common back is often touted as "1 of 3" and so on. Not the end of the world, but a bit annoying. Actually, this has not affected me much personally since I don't really care what tobacco company advertised on the back of a card, and I collect them in the middle grades where most of the cards are relatively plentiful; thus I tend to ignore the T206 pop figures for the most part.
(2) The use of half-grades might be good in terms of grading and valuation accuracy in the long term, but their decision to introduce them at this late date has created the need for collectors to pay to have the cards graded more than once. Once should have been enough.