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Originally Posted by rats60
Why would we want a collector to grade our cards? We would never be able to get our reprint Cracker Jacks graded as authentic.
Nat Turner is well know collector of modern basketball cards. He has been trying to buy PSA for a while with the intention of improving the grading industry. Shouldn't we give him a chance before implying that he is unethical without any evidence?
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I was more replying to Mattys post.
I think it would be an additional challenge to have people totally unfamiliar with cards do the grading. A lot of the mainstream cards could be taught, but if you get outside the very common stuff you need an expert.
I see many people say that's a conflict, but it's pretty much unavoidable. In my other hobbies, the expertisers are almost always collectors or dealers. And they all get items certified if not graded. (Not much point grading a unique item) The companies generally just make sure the submitter isn't the one looking at it.
It can be difficult in some small niches. I have one thing that I haven't had expertised, and the best experts in that very narrow area already know of it and whose it is from the article about it.