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Posted By: davidcycleback

Perhaps just a matter of linguistics, but I consider all the things mentioned to be card doctoring. The question is whether a type of doctoring is acceptable or unacceptable, good or bad.

If you have a nail gun nail in your hand, the nail is a foreign object not supposed to be in your hand, and the doctor is doctoring when he removes it.

As I mentioned before, removing scrap paper from the back or magic marker from the front seems like a reasonable thing to do-- but I would still call it it doctoring.

Disclosure is an additional aspect. Just because the doctoring is "good" doesn't mean you don't have to disclose it. Good doctoring without disclosure can be bad.

And, no, if you brush a piece of lint from your Goudey, I don't believe you have to disclose this at sale.