Just my 2 cents - I think novice collectors hear the "Buy the Card - Not the Holder" schpiel over and over and over. I don't think that it sets in tho until much later down the "collecting" path after carefully studying many cards in hand. I know it took me a long time to get that thru my head.
I would suspect that many untrained eyes would automatically speculate this T206 as at least a 7 were it not already in a holder. My 1st glance at this card was a "wow" and then I automatically assumed "crease" because of the holder.
PWCC's target customer consists of way more than us on the boards and as such I don't think their "HE" designations (or whatever else) is necessarily such a bad thing.
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My Monster Progess
Complete Set......: 238 / 520 : 45%
HOF Cards..........: 009 / 076 : 12%
Southern League.: 000 / 048 : 00%
Minor League......: 055 / 086 : 41%
Portrait Cards......: 077 / 180 : 43%
Horizontal Cards.: 000 / 006 : 00%
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