Posted By:
leonI doubt you will be personally attacked for wanting to better the hobby. I think the attacking comes when anyone is condescending to others....Also, I think it's a no win situation as far as an association goes. I would give the analogy of gun control. It mainly keeps guns away from honest people. The bad guys still have them. As Barry said if there is an association the good guys will join and the bad ones will continue doing what they do. I don't even want to get into the "what's acceptable to do to a card" debate. The majority of folks, on this board, don't think removing a pencil mark is wrong.....but some do...so it will never be 100% agreement on anything. I applaud you for trying to better the hobby but honestly I have had this sneaking suspicion the whole time that you are more worried about bad cards in PSA 8 holders, in your collection, than anything else. I am not saying I wouldn't feel the same way if I only collected high grade but still one has to consider motives when viewing things being done. Maybe you would have this same ambition if you were only collecting pr-vg but it would seem most of those folks aren't quite as concerned......I know I am not...Personally I don't care if every single PSA 8,9,10 were altered. It wouldn't affect me at all....Might the values of my cards go down? Sure, but again, I don't really do it for the money (and I am not saying that I don't like to see assets go up in value, of course I do)....best regards...