>>53822581For congruence with the rest of my collection, and to make the weak grades seem not so weak. It's one thing to constantly see a Pinsir graded 4 and know it's a 4, it's another to just see a kind of beat Pinsir with the rest of my kind of beat childhood cards and appreciate it that way.
>>53822596>a few cards I'm looking for are either impossible to find raw or it's heavily damaged for a similar price to an 8 or 9We seem to be in similar situations. I would much rather buy a "NM" raw card than a graded card, but when the graded "NM" (that is to say, an 8 or 9) is cheaper than a raw, i'm buying the graded and cracking.
>They all look like they're in great condition from your photo'sYeah they all look better than I anticipated. Pretty happy. I don't mind a bit of LP condition for WOTC because my childhood cards are LP-MP and i'm just filling gaps
