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OK... the long dead American showman P. T. Barnum was right when he said "there's a fool born every minute"... And with auction prices like these... it proves it... http://www.ebay.com/...rickenvy&_sop=3 If someone wants to send their MISB box off to a grading service to be sealed in plastic and returned with a listed grade on the box, and a statement that it is "the finest known".... that is just plain stupid in my book. And here's why... 1) the grading is subjective, and may or may not be accurate. 2) listing something as the "finest known"... really means it's the finest known of something that has been sent to these people who sealed it in plastic... it in no way means that it is ACTUALLY the finest known. 3) I've talked to several antique toy collectors, and they said that this was started by an antique toy collector who wanted to make extra money, and so he started this "unofficial" service. Now let me give you a little background. Rare coin collectors and rare baseball collectors have been doing encapsulation for many years. And when you have officially sanctioned groups like the century old American Numismatic Association (for coins) offer this kind of service, that makes more sense... a long respected association. However in coin collecting there are more than 1 service... ANA (as just mentioned)... PNG (Professional Numismatic Guild) and NCGS. And rare coin collecting is more of an exact science... where a flawless mint coint (Mint State - 70) may be worth 100 times that of just a plain uncirculated coin (Mint State - 60). And theres grades MS-61 thru MS-69 in between. Some collectors don't agree with the grade that one service gave their rare coin... so what do they do... they ship it to another service (or even the same service over again) to get a higher grade for selling. So that skewers population figures... and things like "only one graded at MS-65, with none graded higher" can be misleading or meaningless. And with LEGO collectors... 99.99% of all LEGO collectors do NOT have their sets encapsulated... so this "none graded higher" statement by this guy who encapsulates LEGO sets... IS MEANINGLESS.... But there are a few suckers out there who see a set graded like this... and they pay dearly for something that true LEGO collectors would laugh at.... Don't get suckered into this type of "Encapsulation" for LEGO... most true collectors don't use it...