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Originally Posted by brob28
George, I may be missing the point of your post, but I'd counter that while we can be reasonably confident that the card "presents" at the cited grade, it presents due to alteration and deception and thus is no where near the assigned grade. With or without corruption the market trust erodes.
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Drcy (and you, I think) is addressing the case where a card is determined to be doctored in an unacceptable way. I'm trying to address the other graded cards that haven't been determined to be "altered", and probably never will. Taking doctoring in it's broadest sense to mean helping the card present as well as possible, we have to assume every graded card was doctored (at least soaked and cleaned). What we don't know is whether the doctoring is inside or outside the vaguely defined boundaries that affect it's legitimacy, and ultimately it's value. That uncertainty will weigh on values, but won't make the cards (near) worthless. The key driver of prices is (perceived) scarcity.
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