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Grading is a scam anyway and money laundering at best.
Especially in case of physical media. "Hey, here's a cool game/movie/recording. Now slap it in a box and never use it again."
(well, ROM/optical and other media that doesn't wear away, anyway - if it's a floppy, that's going to probably degrade anyway, might as well slap it in a box)
What is 'grading' in this context? I've not encountered it before.
determining how 'good' something is preserved, e.g. does a valuable comic book looks like it has been read? (loose pages, bend pages, smudges, faded colours...) and depending on how pristine that book looks it gets a grade.
Ah! TYVM!
thanks mate.