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Originally Posted by Lorewalker
Most of those people don't care because they themselves lack the ability to assess a card themselves but you summed it up nicely.
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There was recently a YouTube video made by an ostensibly large vintage dealer, complaining about the inconsistencies in PSA's grading and then doing an experiment in which "old" flip / slabs had the cards cracked out, and then the cards were resubmitted raw, where - predictably - they came back with mostly lower or at least inconsistent grades. But the dealer then ruined it by pointing out the flaws on those and other cards and then in attempting to explain why they should have graded higher or lower - within about 10 seconds proved painfully that he didn't have a clue what he was talking about in terms of how grading works.
This kind of thing always gives me stomach pain, because yes PSA DOES have legit issues with their grading scale and process. But now, a full generation plus into slabs and grading being a thing - there are so many in the hobby who have either forgotten or just no longer care how to grade themselves, that at times it seems we are just helpless to do anything about that which would frustrate us.