What would happen if PSA went out of business?

drcy · #1 01-19-2016, 02:40 PM

It's another 30 years minimum before robots will be able to do the authenticity smell test of cardboard.

packs · #2 01-19-2016, 03:01 PM

If PSA went out of business everyone would go back to the arbitrary system of grading we all loathed before TPG's. One man's NRMT is another's EXMT and so on. You need a TPG to even out everything. Of course that TPG doesn't have to be PSA.

ls7plus · #3 01-19-2016, 05:51 PM

They, like the gasoline engine, aren't going anywhere in our lifetimes.

Larry

doug.goodman · #4 01-20-2016, 03:07 AM

Wow, what a thread.

Most of the points I would make have been made, to me the best one regards a certain trimmed card that "started" it all.

Before you correct me, note my use of quotation marks, I don't need a history lesson regarding the people who get paid for their opinions.

What would happen if the people who get paid for their opinions went out of business? I think the world would be a slightly happier place.

But that's just me.

And Al.

And Robert.

And...

mechanicalman · #5 01-20-2016, 07:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by drcy

It's another 30 years minimum before robots will be able to do the authenticity smell test of cardboard.

30 years? Today we have retinal scans, 3D printers, even iPhones with fingerprint recognition, etc. It's actually hard for me to believe that the technology does not exist today to measure a card's printing resolution, cardboard stock, level of gloss, centering, topography for creases, and all the other elements that would authenticate and grade a card.

begsu1013 · #6 01-21-2016, 12:32 AM

said technology detecting surface issues would be the key component and the reason scanners can't be employed to go the entire length of the field.

ya still need the monkeys in one way or another...

eta: now dance monkey!

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