Third-party grading - and the collectors who rely on it - are too fixated on numbers and "grades". Theoretically, a computer would be able to tell you all of the flaws in your card - like compare it digitally to a mint example, with pictures of creases, corner damage, centering, trimmed, etc. But, why assign a single number grade to that?
We get into trouble as a hobby when we focus on the number and not the card. It's not a competition - or is it?
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