That's been my exact gripe with the scale since the first day I discovered
it.

Brad

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Freddie Bingham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 3:37 PM
Subject: RE: [SWCollect] Ouch


> I still maintain the guide is confusing since you have one situation where
a
> grade and modifier can not be used together.
>
> The highest level should simply be Mint and if sealed it gets the (S). If
> you insist on the "Mint Sealed" rating then it should be moved out of the
> same category as NM, F, VG, G, and ED since it does not share the same
level
> of application. That being said NM should also be changed to have a
> definition that reads as near mint, i.e. "Almost perfect, only the
slightest
> blemish precludes it from being Mint".  It seems to me that the biggest
> problem is that the scale deviates from other, much more established
grading
> scales in use in other fields of collecting. I can not find any scales
that
> define a near mint rating as actually being mint and this is the biggest
> problem I have with this list.  I don't see how having shrink-wrap, means
> that we need a scale that deviates from other scales.
>
> I know it won't be changed but I just want to it to be known that there
are
> others who disagree with it.
>
> Lucasarts Museum - http://lucasarts.vintagegaming.org
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alexander Zöller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 12:31 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Ouch
> >
> > Jim Leonard wrote:
> >
> > > Excellent.  I've added it to the MobyScale, which now inches up to
> > > revision 1.03.  The full permanent location of the MobyScale, as
> > > always, is "http://www.mobygames.com/info/MobyScale";.
> >
> > Very many thanks. Back to more important topics we go ;-)
> >
> > Alexander
> >
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