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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

I do not believe that creases are removed from a card without a trace, even if that trace can not be detected by close visual observation. I guess that to date close visual observation has been the technique employed by grading companies for evaluation of this potential.

Part of me would applaud an unwillingness by the hobby to pay for enhanced grading company scrutiny, because any such action will bring into question all of the important cards which were previously graded.

But part of me recognizes that a vote for business as usual will result in just that, with a likely corresponding erosion in the faith of highly graded cards.

So what?
My vote is to perform an investigation in order to determine if a problem may exist. Choose some important graded cards and determine the adequacy of the holder values.