What do you do with suspected trimmed cards?

[Bigdaddy]

Originally Posted by Harliduck

I don't know why I feel the way I do, but I absolutely hate trimmed cards. Even for my set building. You can't buy the volume it takes to put a vintage set together and not come across a few trimmed cards from time to time. I remember I had a 66 Topps Roger Maris that was slightly trimmed that came in a lot I bought off a local card shop...it was tough to tell unless you put it with another card...and every time I would scroll through my 66 set I would see it and just get annoyed. I replaced it and threw the trimmed card in my doubles binder, and then eventually just ripped it up and tossed it. Now every time I see my new Maris I have a much bigger appreciation that I replaced it...it's become one of my favorites in the binder because of the story...

I will return on ebay anything trimmed, every time...even if I got a good deal. I will never knowingly buy something trimmed, even if it's an almost give away. I just can't take it. I am sure if I may still have a few in my binders that have slipped past me...and I guess as long as I don't know, I'm good...haha. I just hate them.

One more story...I won a 67 Brooks Robinson once for way too cheap. I should have seen it was trimmed in the picture alone and for sure others did and steared clear. Once in hand, I didn't need to put it with another card or measure, it was that obvious. I wrote to the seller who immediately just refunded me the whole value, and said keep it, he didn't want it back. He clearly gave it a shot to sell and slide it out there, and failed...kinda sketchy but again, immediately took care of it. There was a post here on net54 on trimmed cards and I mentioned I had a trimmed 67 Brooks. I didn't know what to do with the card and a member here offered me half what I paid, even though I got a refund. I knew him well enough (forgot who it was now) and at first said no...he talked me into it and for the first and only time I knowingly passed on a trimmed card instead of me just throwing it in the garbage out of circulation. It worked for him too as he said he was just trying to put the tough 67 set together and most of his high numbers were Poor at best...just wanted a representation. I figured that was the perfect scenerio for that card to someone who appreciated just having a Brooks. That's a tough one to throw away. I won't do that again, and reflecting back I should have sent it to him for free.

I hear ya. I've got a 1966 set that my dad and I put together in the 1980's and it has a trimmed (on all four borders) Koufax. At the time, it didn't occur to me that it was trimmed - who would trim a ballcard in the 1980s? Anyway, when I see it now, all I can do is cringe. Will need to replace it down the road. Luckily it is a dp and not very expensive.