Have to out this.
 

So, earlier in April I sold the attached card to a gentleman in Maine. He obviously turned around quickly to have it graded at Beckett after......well....look at the eBay listing or the third and fourth attachments after the first two.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/26679012612...3Avlp_homepage

In addition to that I have received an offer through eBay to purchase the card from the same gentleman in the same town for $4200.00 instead of $4500.00. Incredible. :mad:

He trimmed it with a rusty pair of scissors and had it put in an "Altered" holder.

Maybe he thought it looked more aesthetically pleasing that way.

(insert shrug emoji here)

LOL, also did he soak it and just leave it laying out on the counter to dry?:eek:

The before picture is infinitely more appealing.

Just why?

Some people have the most illogical ideas.

That might be the worst alteration I've ever seen. At least this person's work is highly unlikely to fool anyone.

Lots of alcohol?

I don't necessarily have a problem with someone taking an altered card (though not sure the original version exactly fits that criteria) and making it a more appealing altered card, but I really do not understand how someone could do such a terrible job trimming a card in this day and age.

The original corners and edges, except the one, were quite appealing anyway, would have looked totally great slabbed like that...if it had to be slabbed. Oh well, some people.

yikes
 

Maybe he thought it was a strip card? I can just imagine him hacking away , looking at the card and saying.... hmm maybe just a wee bit more?? 30 minutes later OH CRAP!!!!! This is where he wished he could jump into his DeLorean and go back in time....... seriously, that is about the best card Ive ever seen totally butchered and its a damn shame.

that was stoopid!

'Fuckery'

At least it didn't get a numeric grade from Beckett.

I was wondering why that second-to-last option only got an 82% opprobrium rate: https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=347578

Interesting to look at the posters on that thread, too.

He probably wanted to trim that gash out of the right side...and if I'm being honest, that looked horrible, regardless of what type of "originalist" you are.

....and then he realized the card looked off-center, sparking some sort of OCD reaction in his brain from which he couldn't help himself.

Don't think it was anything nefarious. Just a little misguided maybe.

Geez...at least you have a scan of what the card originally looked like.


Buyers from the state of Maine should legally be restricted from purchasing this example.

Brian

This thread will really get interesting if he's a member of Net54 and comes on to explain his reasoning. Oh hell yeah. Attachment 620057

He is...check out the seller's ID. It is the same as it is on here.

Brian

Other than being guilty of maybe bad taste and bad scissor skills I’m not sure why this guy should take flack for this.

I think that's mostly it. Card went from having one jacked edge to having the entire perimeter butchered in a way that seems massively beneath the skills of a normally-abled adult. Plus, I would imagine the markup he is expecting to get for his handiwork is quite amusing...although I don't know those exact details, just speculating.

The richest part is this thread he started in January basically shaking his head at all the bad alterations out there.

https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=344755

I swear you can’t make this shit up.

I can't imagine anyone thinking this was meant to deceive, I think he likely really just thought it would make it better aesthetically and failed miserably.

truly, I genuinely like the earned wear of age including a missing chunk here and there occasionally. I have to take the other side and say that the original card was leaps and bounds better looking than a trim...even if done with a paper cutter as some border is certainly better than none.