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Old 08-14-2025, 06:51 AM
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Is anybody putting together a "Grading Rainbow"?
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Old 08-14-2025, 11:51 AM
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No, it's an asinine concept. Just collect raw instead of doing that.
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Hmmmmm, I dunno. Maybe this fellow here might be interested:



You do have to admit that Rainbow Brite is kinda cool.

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No, it's an asinine concept. Just collect raw instead of doing that.
Yep pretty stupid - People are paying more for grade 1, 2, 3 than they are for grade 6, 7, 8
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It might be the ultimate example of "buy the grade, not the card." A few months ago I was thinking it would be a good play to buy a bunch of ex-mt 89 UD Ken Griffeys and crumple them up to varying degrees, and send them into PSA to get a bunch of 1s, 1.5s, 2s etc. This is a card that is a big target of the grading rainbow philosophy. But alas I am not that enterprising.

Somebody else surely did this and I expect the pop of low grade 89 Griffeys to increase if they haven't already.
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It might be the ultimate example of "buy the grade, not the card." A few months ago I was thinking it would be a good play to buy a bunch of ex-mt 89 UD Ken Griffeys and crumple them up to varying degrees, and send them into PSA to get a bunch of 1s, 1.5s, 2s etc. This is a card that is a big target of the grading rainbow philosophy. But alas I am not that enterprising.

Somebody else surely did this and I expect the pop of low grade 89 Griffeys to increase if they haven't already.
The article says that if they think the card was intentionally damaged to get a low grade, it will likely receive an A instead.
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Not sure how they will be able to determine intent to damage, but ok.
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The article says that if they think the card was intentionally damaged to get a low grade, it will likely receive an A instead.
That's a joke. But seriously - how many true PSA 1 89 UD Griffeys can actually be out there - I mean, UD was out of the price range of most younger collectors (it was for me and was in college) and most of them were pulled immediately, even if grading wasn't thing yet.
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