Ethical question re: selling/grading

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Personally, I would probably disclose everything I knew, but generally my take is that unless grading history includes an outright rejection of a card for being altered, I don't think someone who does not disclose grading history is being unethical. Is it a completely consistent, airtight position? Probably not, one could do a Socratic method on it.

So ultimately it probably depends on the facts of each case.

Seriously? If you cracked it out of a 7 Holder and it came back a 9, wouldn't you simply consign it to an AH in its "9" Holder?

Would you really tell the Auction House to state in their description that this card previously graded "7" but was re-graded as a "9"? Have you ever seen an AH description that discloses that type of info? Let's be honest about this... I'd venture to say that you (and 99% of the collecting community) would simply let the 9 grade stand with no further explanation.

We all know by now that these number grades mean close to nothing. Who cares if some random idiot graded it a 7 in the past? Cards graded "Min Size" by one TPG come back with number grades from another TPG. It happens every day of the week. Cards graded as "5" a decade ago are now lucky to grade "3". The process has become meaningless, random, errant, inconsistent and corrupt to say the least.