Posted By:
Rob
I don't have a problem with professional restoration which removes flaws from a card. It was just highly visible and profitable in this case. SGC clearly undergraded the card 1st time through, I'd have called it a 50. Appears to be a bit overgraded now, I would had called it a 70, it might be argued that Mastro got special treatment here. So a 1.5 improvement in grade is what you could had seen, rather than going to a "3" grade improvement.
I do find it annoying that people claim SGC "grades conservatively". To me, that means that SGC undergrades cards, that they ignore their own guidelines and not delivering the service that they promise. But for people who put cards into their collection, SGC does have the more attractive holder.