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Originally Posted by swarmee
Will disagree with this one. If a card has been pressed to a thinner card by people screwing it into a holder, it is altered/pressed. Just because that person thought they were protecting their card doesn't matter. The card is damaged, and should be treated as such. Not identifying pressed cards as altered also would obscure those cards with wrinkles or creases that are then pressed out.
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I agree with the highlighted text. The card has sustained damage and should be treated as such. But that's not the same thing as being altered. Why not treat it like they do with creases? A creased card can't get higher than a 4 (or a 1.5 it seems nowadays). Just give it a fair grade that reflects the damage. Why is that so difficult to do? Got a NM looking 52 Mantle with squished corners? Give it a 5 instead of an 8 or whatever. But to put it in a "Altered" slab and give it a scalet letter with no explanation to accompany that decision? That's bullshit IMO.