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Originally Posted by The Cardfather
George,
I'm not saying that it won't happen, but from an integrity point of view; it's sort of like having a company CFO do a financial audit on the company he works for (as opposed to using an unbiased third-party firm).
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Not really, because you'd only say the card is "uncirculated", which it is. Most people would expect a modern card coming off the printing line to be perfect and exactly the same as every other similar card just coming off the printing line, before it starts getting handled a lot and becomes circulated.
You wouldn't need an experienced grader to do that either, it would just be accepted by the collecting public.
Think of it maybe like autographed cards that Topps creates, has signed, and then inserts into their products. Topps states the autographs are real, and everyone pretty much just accepts it. I don't believe people normally take such autographed cards and then spend more money to send them in to a TPG to be authenticated a second time. They generally just accept Topps word, and that is it. So why wouldn't the same hold true for a card Topps sends out that claims it is uncirculated, and therefore should be perfect.