Ineptness of Authenticators/Graders

[BobC]

Would it not also behoove TPGs to not keep such accurate notes and records in case someone was to take them to court over their guarantees, or to dispute losses they felt they had incurred due to wrongful TPG opinions? Without such notes and evidence it would be extremely harder to prove fault in the case of giving an opinion. Kind of like scrubbing a crime scene so the actual fingerprints are gone.

Another reason I had heard in the past for why TPGs may not want to share all specific details as to why they graded a particular card as they did, is to not let card doctors and alterers know exactly what was found or seen so they could improve their techniques and work to better fool TPGs in future attempts at getting their altered cards past them and graded as high as possible.

[puckpaul]

I get it, the process is very imperfect and often corrupt…but in the end, the card is still the card and everyone can see it. Grading is important but don’t always determine how well a card sells. We all have our stories, and i sure wish i never had thought that the grading companies would someday be discredited (i have abandoned this thought), and had had many more cards graded before this explosion in cost and increase in grading standards. Oh well! On the other hand, it has allowed versions of many cards to obtain prices never before contemplated, and it does trickle down to the value of all cards (in general).

Not much we can do now…