robert i love your posts and they are very informative.

the sentence you wrote about rea being mears only one and preferred auction house i believe is misleading. i think mears went through and sent letters to every auction house saying that they wanted to be associated with 'transparent' auction houses. listing items as 'auction house' owned. etc... rea was one of the few/only one that agreed with their policy.

personally i understand what mears is trying to do, but the grading system is very confusing. why even grade a procut? also there is an inherent conflict of interest of grading AND selling your items no matter how you do it. either you are the best game used grading company out there or you are the best game used selling company out there.

my other .02 is that i think mears does have the best intentions of any grading company. just need to tighten up the ship a little bit.

take care
john