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Posted By: Judge Dred

Josh,

Are you serious, Joe Orlando saved this guy $750. For that much money Marcus could have another 50 cards graded. Are we all so selfish that we can't pony up a couple of dollars more per card to cover the cost of properly grading a card?

Josh, I'm just Joshing you. I couldn't agree more. PSA should just eat the difference in price. I don't get it. Why is it $7 more to grade a star player. Do they spend more time with a star player card than a mere common? I don't understand the concept. I thought that the graders were basically trained monkeys with no card experience other than assigning an unbiased opinion as to the condition of the card.

If I were Joe Orlando I'd be a bit concerned because it appears that one of his unknowing, unbiased trained monkeys is learning something if they have the ability to determine who the star players are. PSA better watch out or someone might submit a truly valuable card (like a T206 Magie error for example) and it might disappear because a trained monkey figured out that it's worth something.

I have to stop responding to these type of threads or someone might get the idea that I don't care too much for PSA.