Leap of Faith -- what is YOUR jumping off point

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Posted By: Rich Klein

Since Barry thought this was a fair and reasonable question, I have decided to make this an seperate thread.

At some point, everyone has their moment when they are ready to accept their cards as being graded correctly, their autographs as being verified authentic, and/or their memorabilia as being verified as legit.

Everyone has a different point: Jim C's point is he is only currently OK with anything new if Kevin authenticates it. Barry S's point is that he recieves cards from consignors, he sends them off (almost always to SGC -- just don't want to use an absolute Barry -- as an English professor I'm sure you understand why) to a 3rd party professional grader so they can sell better in his auctions. Some collectors are OK buying cards raw off EBay with scans they find acceptable,....

But at some point, we are all making a decision that the item we want (cards, memorabilia, autographs) are acceptable to us. It seems to me, that we go round and round about that everyone has to have the same point. That to me, is one of the arguments that will never end and we'll always have Jim C. and Barry S. disagreeing about this (at least in their case, it is professionaly argued and nothing personal seeps in)

Here is the question: This is NOT a poll, there is not a right or a wrong answer -- and to me, these create the best discussions.

Jim C believes he will take the leap of faith ONLY after Kevin looks at any card he (Jim) is thinking of purchasing

Barry believes that once the card is properly slabbed, then he can take the leap of faith to sell the card.

What is YOUR leap of faith for purchasing or selling cards or memorabilia items?

Regards
Rich