What is next in 21st century card collecting

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Posted By: Dylan

If your statement is people should be more reliant on themselves instead of others, I can agree with that. I spent time to read on and study grading so that I could accuratly assess cards for sale. I also track auction data myself, without paying someone 10 dollars a month to do it for me. On the other hand much of the business done is over the internet thereby making 3rd party grading preferable to many buyers. I'm only able to see a scan(often times small and out of focus scans!) not hold the card and inspect it with my 30x loop. And considering cards are then sent through the mail system, i feel better about a card being in a slab(except some of psa's) then in what some sellers decide to ship their cards in.