AFA Grading

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I'm not sure who is being exploited here? The people who want to buy collections of high grade items? I dont think so - if somewant wants to spend thousands to have the only one in the world then good luck to them.

No... that has nothing to do with it. A high quality and/or rare item will always be sought after and valued, regardless of whether it has been highly graded or not. If someone wants to buy a graded item that's fine, but not everyone wants to, as per comment below.

So you just dislike opinions when they are provided as a service? I'm lost.

I dislike it when the market becomes saturated with AFAed items that at the same time happen to be rare or hard to find. So as a collector, I either have to accept that higher priced AFA item because there aren't any others available (which I don't want to do), or wait until a non-graded, comparable item comes along, which may never happen.

So to answer your question, the people who are going to be exploited are those who seek high value/rare items that are only available at inflated prices because the only ones they can get have been AFAed.

Well it does actually. The best example on TV would be Pawn Stars. They have all sorts of 'experts' they bring when they want to check something is real and these experts often offer the current market value. This is the way the world works - things are authenticated, you dont have to agree but this is what happens.

I did say "to me", meaning for me, personally. But I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one.