[ripkenfan72]

Oh no you did NOT just quote me in your sig!!!

Sorry Wendy but that is HILARIOUS!!!! How can you not quote that

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I realize they are a business but people who like grades do like to compare and why pay twice. Beckett is smart providing that as a free service as long as you are registered. IMO

[joe callahan13]

They ARE a business. But sometimes, you gotta give a little to get a lot.....

I get all my stuff graded through Beckett just because I can check the pop reports any time I want and I don't need to pay monthly to do it. (Even though I pay monthly anyway for the OPG)

[eazy e]

honestly, i find it disturbing that folks think they should give it away for free.

you find it disturbing?...C'mon..

[jacobystealshome]

you find it disturbing?...C'mon..

as someone who runs a business, yea. this sense of entitlement, for a company to give away proprietary information....

[ricky williams 34]

as someone who runs a business, yea. this sense of entitlement, for a company to give away proprietary information....

If grades were proprietary they wouldn't put them on the cards. They'd send us back a plastic slab with a tag that said "Graded #12345". We wouldn't know what the grade was or how they arrived at it...

Which brings up this point: PSA does keep some of its grading proprietary...and it's true that we never see that information, such as the corners/surface/whatever other criteria they use to grade a card.

Unfortunately, they post "proprietary information" right on their work...no longer making it a trade secret. If they are going to release it out into the public, the database should be public knowledge as well.

Entitlement implies people demanding something they haven't paid for or earned, and while there is far too much of it in the world today, this is not one of those cases. All of those slabs were paid for, and the grading reports were earned...

[eazy e]

as someone who runs a business, yea. this sense of entitlement, for a company to give away proprietary information....

You assume, that your the only one who own's/runs a business.....

If grades were proprietary they wouldn't put them on the cards. They'd send us back a plastic slab with a tag that said "Graded #12345". We wouldn't know what the grade was or how they arrived at it...

Which brings up this point: PSA does keep some of its grading proprietary...and it's true that we never see that information, such as the corners/surface/whatever other criteria they use to grade a card.

Unfortunately, they post "proprietary information" right on their work...no longer making it a trade secret. If they are going to release it out into the public, the database should be public knowledge as well.

Entitlement implies people demanding something they haven't paid for or earned, and while there is far too much of it in the world today, this is not one of those cases. All of those slabs were paid for, and the grading reports were earned...

+1 well said