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And I've been grumbling about the price of penny sleeves

To each their own I guess and if I was buying a really expensive card I might want a graded card so I knew it wasn't a fake but I don't get the fee for a servive to tell me if an 89 Donruss Griffey rookie has nice corners, surface and edges and nice centering. Am I wrong to think I could determine that on my own?

It's all about creating scarcity/rarity by pointing to a population report and saying "there are only X many 9s in existence right now and then charging more money for it. I have a bunch of graded cards but I typically liked to buy them so I knew what I was getting on ebay rather than trusting a crappy picture. This has become way less sustainable for me now that the prices are crazy.