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Posted By: Ryan Christoff

This would be the perfect opportunity for one of the grading companies to take the 1st step in authenticating trimmed cards and slabbing them with a clearly marked "TRIMMED" or "RE-COLORED" or whatever label.

It just doesn't seem that rejecting cards as trimmed does the hobby any good as those cards are then back out into the market and likely re-sold as unaltered by one of the many unscrupulous sellers out there.

If the grading companies did slab altered cards and label them properly, then a ton of altered cards would at least not be sold as legit.

The cards aren't worthless just because they are altered. I believe there would still be a market for slabbed altered cards.

-Ryan

P.S. I realize that some companies will "authenticate" bigger ticket cards occasionally, but not as a standard practice. Plus, the label only says "authentic" as opposed to specifically mentioning the alteration.