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Originally Posted by OldOriole
Patrick that was a great, well-thought-out post.
I appreciate all the feedback from everyone. It certainly makes sense that more valuable cards (major HOFers, rare printings, high condition cards) would be graded at a higher rate for many sets.
There are a finite number of these vintage cards left to be graded. Is this why we sometimes see TPG companies targeting newer cards with higher distributions or are there still so many ungraded vintage cards that the supply will not dry up for the graders in the foreseeable future?
Reading through the posts again, I do wonder how many barn and attic finds are still left out there. Impossible to know, but can't wait for the next one!
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“....a finite number of vintage cards left to be graded....” is perhaps true, but the insurance policy the TPGs have is the finite number of collectors who crack graded cards out of their “tombs” as soon as they receive them, and the crossover artists who change the slabs of a given card, and the bumpaholics who think a card is undergraded and crack it out for resubmission.
Certainly the TPGs are not worried in the least about only a finite number of vintage cards left to be graded, for they are more than happy to grade the same card over and over and over again.
In the auction game, “shill” bidders are the poison. In the TPG game, “shill” crackers are a gift that keeps on giving for the slabbers.