The $80 Floor: What Happens When Bulk Card Grading Dies

Grading built this market. Grading is now changing again. This episode traces card grading from the 1990s, when buyers and sellers eyeballed condition and negotiated it live, through the trust-building years of the mid 2010s, into the COVID volume surge that turned grading into the backbone of an asset class. We cover what old label standards mean for the population data you rely on today, and why PSA 10 counts across sports and TCG look nothing like they did in 2020. From there we get into t...