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MVSNYCi woke this morning to read this thread...guys, i am with Jim on this one...i can't believe what i am hearing, i guess i am a purist as well, how could all of you bash Mastro's for "preparring" cards (which i do not endorse)...only to happily explain how you soak cards, clean them up, "prepare" them for grading?...come on, sounds like a double standard here.
a card should be left un-tampered with...left exactly the way it was when you obtained it...i think Daniel hit it on the head, the paper damage on the back of a card, pulled from a scrapbook, is the price you pay for pulling it out...i have been collecting for 15 years and the thought of "touching" a card has never even crossed my mind...
escpecially if you plan to send it in to a grading company...you are knowingly cleaning up a card to acheive a higher grade...let me ask you, if & when you go to sell the cards, will you explain that the SGC 70, or PSA 8 has been soaked? of course you won't, and that is the scary part...
sorry for my rant, but was just surprised to hear all of this...