Check out mycomicshop.com for why I hate grading. They have like 100 graded copies of uncanny X-Men 266, gambit first appearance. Like why? If there’s 10,000 NM copies in the world, CGC has no business grading it and only idiots buy CGC versions when they could buy a regular copy for 1/10th the price.
It has ruined collecting for readers at the expense of speculators. We didn’t learn anything in the 90s bubble, just changed foul/chrome to 100 variants and moved the focus to even more expensive items with CGC auto increasing the price tenfold for no reason.
Thankfully digital comics and tpb’s have largely made issue collecting irrelevant.
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