SIGNIFICANCE OF "HIGHEST SGC GRADE"

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Posted By: honus3415

What really does have significance?

Pop Reports? --- They do give collectors an abstract way of determining the scarcity of an item. Although as far as I know these reports have no way of adjusting for opened slabs. Which judging from posts on this board, whether just freeing your card or cross-over-grading, seems to be a fairly significant amount of the vintage population of some items. So maybe a 1/3 is really a 1/1 ... no one knows for certain. And maybe one company's highest graded just happens to be the same one reported elsewhere.

Grades? --- We have all seen questionable "PROFESSIONAL" OPINIONS from the four major graders. Plus, I'm not positive but I would think any slabbed card could degenerate in quality if stored improperly (mainly but not limited to light/sunlight).

SMR / Book Pricing? --- There have been several threads on this topic and I personally have yet to see any correlation to actual occurrences (facts) that would lead me to believe that these are anything more than guess-timates.

So basically when seeing ANY data from these catagories, we should remember that just because it is printed somewhere doesn't necessarily make it a fact worth repeating.

Now, like Mom always told me...."If you haven't got anything GOOD to say, don't say anything at all."

I'll shut up now.