[jeep1991]

i see what youre saying xstream, but for me, 98% of my breaks are in my home with sleeves, toploaders, and platiunum pages next to me, and i am anal with how i handle my cards. i dont remember this issue being brought up until beckett changed the condition stuff, which i still think was a bad idea, now we have traders being divided.

I'm on the same page as you here. All of the product I pull goes directly into sleeves and top loaders, so they are kept mint, or pack fresh as it were. I'm not saying they are going to grade a 10 but you'd be hard pressed to get anything less than a 9. Gold Standard cards for instance how many graded ones have you seen at less than a 9, 1% maybe?

I do not mark all of my cards at mint, I actually access the condition. Older cards that I have had for years are left at the default. But a fresh
break of Gold Standard is going to be set at Mint. That isn't me trying to get more value for my cards, that is being accurate with the condition. The price difference does not bother me. I would obviously pay more for a BGS 9+ than a BGS 8-8.5. I trade cards I have marked as mint for ones that are marked near mint all of the time and vice versa. And I have never been agitated with a card I received and how it had been marked.

If you think your card is mint, mark it as such. Don't just arbitrarily change your conditions because mine are mint. If we both leave our cards at the default and I send you a 10 and you send me an 8, how is that "fair"? Use the conditional value tool as it was meant to be utilized. It is there for our benefit. It should not be a point of contention.