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					Originally Posted by swarmee  We started noticing this a couple of years ago; you can look back and find other posts asking how Greg Morris cards get so much for raw ungraded.  That's also a reason there are a few eBay resellers who do take lower graded PSA/SGC/BGS cards and crack and sell raw.  Some of the buyers are just trying to put together clean raw sets, but many are trying to learn the grading game. | 
	
 
I was observing this last night on a 1973 Topps Clemente that GMC had listed as NM/MT. The bidding was approaching $300 when a PSA 8 could be had for <$150. I gues it is the "hope" that the card could grade as a 9 or 10 that drives the frenzy.