I understand card grading from the perspective of, if I am going to buy a card from 1933 or 1957, I want a graded one because IDEALLY professional card graders can tell better than I can if a card is authentic or not.
That said, I ONLY care that it is deemed authentic. The actual grade doesn't matter to me.
Of course, considering that they are (apparently) grading trimmed cards left and right, it seems that grading companies can't even be trusted to say whether a card is authentic or not.
Remember when it was a thing to have one graded card per box? That seemed so silly to me at the time. (...and it still does.)
That said, I ONLY care that it is deemed authentic. The actual grade doesn't matter to me.
Of course, considering that they are (apparently) grading trimmed cards left and right, it seems that grading companies can't even be trusted to say whether a card is authentic or not.
Remember when it was a thing to have one graded card per box? That seemed so silly to me at the time. (...and it still does.)
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