I have to concur about the slabbing. The pokemon community struggles daily with fake cards costing people lots of money and being soured by the experience. Slabbing at the very least says "yes this is real". It doesnt even need to be about condition grading. However I struggle to think how the hobby could even utilise slabbing with the plethora of TRK reproductions from the 1990s. I guess a honour system will have to come into play, though I had to really go digging to find out about the TRK scandals which I discovered 2 years into the hobby so I dont think such a system would be honoured. Sadly I find myself having more negative experiences than positive at the moment