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		<title>Collecting Graded Trading Cards</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back on October 30, 2004, a weblog post focused on a serious question, “Why use Beckett Grading Service?” Over the last few years, my collection of trading cards has been reduced. Right now my primary focus involves picking up carefully selected Beckett Grading Service (BGS) encapsulated cards from auction houses or private collectors. Right now the prices have hit record lows and picking up some seriously awesome cards seems manageable and strangely affordable. For the send time I am going to edit and rework my essay, “Five major modern issues are changing the value of trading cards.” In 2004, the essay developed from my observation that the social perception of the game of baseball is not the only issue involved in answering the question of if my baseball card collection would survive the test of time. In the interest of clarity, I have tried to contain my analysis in the following list of, “five major modern issues are changing the value of trading cards.” 1. Expensive card rating has become important in the strange world of sports trading cards Beckett has generated a dichotomous two-class system. Beckett professionally rated and certified cards and those that are in a separate more [...]]]></description>
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