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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rick, post: 76338, member: 1235&quot;]the former.&nbsp; I was wondering if anyone had any run-ins with the changes in the grading standards.&nbsp; I have not, personally, but I don&#039;t buy and sell nearly as much as a lot of people in the hobby.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I guess the whole business that people were talking about a few weeks ago just *still* sits poorly with me - and not just because I don&#039;t like the idea of grade adjustments.&nbsp; Where I don&#039;t like that, I find that if the hobby decides grading needs to be tweeked every now and again, that will happen... I don&#039;t agree with it, but I can at least understand &#039;hey, people think that what we used to call above average F is now considered an average VF.&nbsp; People thought about it, and that&#039;s what people decided.&#039;&nbsp; To me, that&#039;s much like saying &#039;ok 2+2 used to = 4, but now people have decided to call 4 &#039;5&#039; - we aren&#039;t saying that 2 is now = to 2.5, or that 4 has really changed in real value... we&#039;re just calling 4 &#039;5&#039;.&#039;&nbsp; So fine... I think it&#039;s ridiculous, but I can process the idea.&nbsp; Nothing really changes except the terms used.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But what seemed to be explained was that the 1-70 grading standard was a value based grading system, which I thought was sort of odd - and I have never personally directly read Dr. Sheldon&#039;s works.&nbsp; But unless Travers has it all wrong, it doesn&#039;t appear that the 1-70 designation is value based in the formula.&nbsp; At least, if it is, it doesn&#039;t need to be.&nbsp; It just defies reason.&nbsp; Set aside, for a moment, that the only real thing that defines value is market economics - I can&#039;t call a Dodge a BMW and expect I can price it according to the name I gave it.&nbsp; It&#039;s still a Dodge.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This hobby, in my opinion, is filled with smart and reasonable people.&nbsp; This leaves me with the thought that something happens that I don&#039;t understand.&nbsp; Like anyone else, I can see what happened and accept the facts in the aftermath - but the logical process entirely evades me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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