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jay behrensNixon, got a real name to with your handle?
You also did not tell what group 3 was, so no way to determine if your description of 'chumps' may be accurate.
I am on old time collector and more than capable of telling what is fake and able to grade a store my cards, but the reason I use a grading service, in my case SGC, is that the slab is very attractive. Much better than anything I could do myself. So I don't mind shelling out a few bucks to show and protect my most prized cards. Binders are ok, but I have had more thana few people over the years manage to damage cards in binders and plain plastic screwdowns aren't very attractive.
As for complaints about people paying for a number on a slab, you are preaching to the choir here. Pretty much everyone here that buys slabbed cards buys the card in the slab, not the grade asigned to it. Take trip to the CU baord and see what kind of reaction you get over there.
Jay