The Question of the Day is a way to facilitate community discussion to help members ponder the unanswered questions of the world that are somehow relating to the hobby. Questionsj are many times open ended and up to interpretation. Feel free to post your thoughts in as much or as little detail as you’d like.
Helpful Considerations may or may not help some people focus their answer, these are blurred to not bother those who have their own ideas.
Today’s Question: QotD: The “Mega” madness goes too far, grading companies all converge to one mega company, what is their perfected criteria for Pokemon card grading?
Helpful Considerations: A new 10,000 point scale? Less dart board and more roulette wheel? Ai decides your cards fate? Its just a scam for the gullible and will always keeping the grading fee?
they would need to use a combo of AI for defects, scanning a card and using pixel length for precise measuring/centering and have someone look it over. All on a 20 grade scale. 1 out of every 100,000 cards will be a 20 and people can go nuts. My binder cards and my old premerger graded cards will watch the chaos ensue from the sidelines.
Cut wages, cut grading time from 31,3 seconds to 22,2 seconds per card, cut additional quality controls, increase upcharges, sign a strict exclusivity clause with Fedex, tighten relations with eBay, increase propaganda/astroturf budget, cut slab costs, renegotiate terms with affiliated sweatshop manufacturers, significantly increase budget to developing addictive mystery products, give legal team more resources to investigate gambling loopholes, increase scouting of celebrity brand ambassadors and increase their compensation, invest in card cleaning products, finally apply for a patent on numerical card grading and bribe the USPTO officials needed to make it happen.
Fire all the graders. Just send an invoice for different level grades, and whatever they choose is what you list on the magic paper slip if they pay enough. Employees doing the slabification are required to eat Cheetos while doing their work.