The Net54 forum has been very educational, and I appreciate everyone's thoughtful comments. This particular thread, for instance, helped me enormously! I don't usually buy slabbed cards -- only when I'm desperate for a particular card -- but now I know that the old red-labeled SCD slabs are reliable. And it's true what others have already said -- the SCD graders were very conservative in their numbers. I recently picked up a couple cards on eBay that were red-SCD slabbed (only after reading this thread), and I have NOT been disappointed at all! In fact, I would even say that if I were to have the cards reslabbed (which I'm not), they'd get AT LEAST the same grade from PSA, if not higher. And I can say this because I've bought my share of PSA-slabbed cards as well. So again, thanks to all!
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