One of the things that's wrong with the current grading system

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Posted By: steve yawitz

I don't think it's a problem at all. Heck, I think these discrepancies between eye appeal and third-party grade afford average collectors like myself the opportunity to pick up really cool cards within our means. There's so much variability within the lower grades that the flaw(s) responsible for a 20 or 2 or whatever might not matter on our own idiosyncratic grading scales.

Personally, I can tolerate a pretty wide range of condition issues as long as a card's registration is crisp and its color still bold. Creases, subtle paper loss, even pinholes be damned - image is everything.