Is there a bottom grade that you never go below with your CGC slabs?

I recently decided to start collecting more of the GHOSTS series other than the first 15 which have a different design to thier covers than the ones after issue #15. Now, its a long series with 112 issues and a few specials listed in other series. I decided to collect the first 15 issue because they are so hard to find well centered. After issue 15 they becomes a bit easier to find well centered. I've decided to still only buy well centered issues with no design elements cut off, but where as on the first 15 issues grade wasn't that important, on the next 97 issues I had to set some kind of rule as to how low a grade I would buy. I decide on the following. Issues 16 to 49 would have to be CGC's 9.4 with OW/W pages or better and issues 50 to 112 would have to be 9.6 with white pages or better. I'd love to have gone with 9.8 but the price gets to high at that grade, around $90 compared to $35 for 9.6's.

Where is this long rant going? What's the bottom grade that you accept? GHOSTS is a 1970s-80s series so there seem to be plenty of copies out there in high grade, with I'm sure, many more to be graded. Should low grades be lowered as the issues get older? Series from the 60's are around in high grade but not that often placed in the marketplace. Do you lower you grade so that you can own one soon or just wait till a high grade comes along? I've kind of set my low grade for silver age stuff at 8.0. That all leads to the golden age. Some of these issues just never come up for sale so do you just buy them no matter what the grade is? I do. They still have to be good looking for the grade and come at a price that the grade dictates but if you don't think you're ever going to see one again, I buy it. Would you? Let me know what you concider the lowest grade you would buy for a modern, silver, and golden age comic. (See one of my lower graded comics below. I have one graded lower but can't find the picture of it. It's a SHOWCASE #20 in CGC-4.0)

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