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Posted By: T206Collector

...but I have no memory of how I stumbled onto the Board or why.

When I first posted, I was very pro-PSA and very opinionated. I only had about 80 T206 cards, and 15-20 of them were graded, all by PSA. Almost immediately, I got into fights with the two Behrens brothers -- at one point confusing one for the other -- and some guy named MW, who used to post a lot more than he does, but I think still lurks and posts occasionally.

While I still believe that some of my initial points about graded cards ring true (the one I defended most vociferously, if I recall, was that we'll never be able to predict what card grading companies will be most respected in 2 to 5 to 10 to 50 years from now, and thus there may one day be a reason to switch all cards out of one's preferred grading companies), I opened my mind to the possibility that SGC may actually be better than PSA for my collection. And, it didn't take long for me to start to see why. Four or so years later, I'm all about SGC and really dislike PSA -- and I crossed all of my cards over to SGC, at the time about 40-50 of them. But, if SGC starts to screw up as much and as inappropriately as PSA has, then who knows, I may have to switch them all to GAI!