[swarmee]

Expecting perfection? The catchphrase from the CEO of Collector's Universe is "NEVER GET CHEATED!"

Most of us don't expect perfection. But many of these alterations should be caught under a blacklight, or by knowing what the proper size for the issue is.

But the biggest poke in the eye to collector's is knowing that long term trimmers from 20 years ago were never banned from PSA and continued to submit until finally being banned (maybe?) when PSA was under FBI investigation. That's 20 MORE YEARS of trimmed/altered cards they allowed in their holders, INTENTIONALLY.

I find your white-knighting/apologetics for PSA and the other companies absolutely hysterical. When PSA has been showed evidence of trimmed cards in their holders (before and after pictures of the same numbered card), they have disagreed with the photographic proof and reholdered the cards as the number grades they originally got. That's not just a whoops, that's intentional fraud.