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06-10-2011, 11:04 AM | #111 |
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I started a thread about the AFA too. AFA is one of those companies that likes to screw the fandam and not even nice enough to give us a reach around. Their grading system is a joke and is deteremined by the guy grading that day. |
06-10-2011, 11:58 AM | #112 |
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It's just like any other organization or company.
They get together and creating a rating or certification process and hope other people adopt their ways and it eventually becomes a standard. Throw enough weight around and constantly mention your name in the business and it'll be a household name. I'm in the construction business. There are standards, ways to do things, codes, etc... A lot of these were created by individual companies and were eventually adopted to be "standard". The newest scam in the field is LEEDS certification.
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06-10-2011, 02:58 PM | #114 |
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But, don't you see how that is the beauty of it? It's completely arbitrary, but so would be your opinion if you walked up to a counter in a comic shop and asked to see the vintage toy behind the counter. You might call it an 8, but the super picky guy that looked at it last week called it a 6. We hear the stories of a guy who gets totally mint cases from Hasbro, breaks them open and sends off the rare figure and it comes back an 8, and another guy who found a figure in an open case at Wal-Mart and sent it to be graded and it came back a 9.8. This is why you should not be confused. It is basically charging for an outside, independant opinion. You're confused because you can't figure out why anyone places any stock in what they hell they say, because not only is their opinion arbitrary, but the price and value we -the collectors- place on it is as well. Our value of the figure we send to be graded remains inflated because we paid for it to be graded and goddamn it, it's gonna be worth as much as I say! Like the guy who sends perfectly mint figures to be graded and they come back an 8. He still thinks it's a 10.0, so he charges that way for it when he sells it. Even Hasbro is getting in on the scam and selling 90 dollar figures on their website that have been AFA graded. It's bullshit and it's completely a response to the clout we, as a community, have given this scam. There is just something really bullshit about the manufacturer selling AFA 10s.
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