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Posted By: T206Collector

It's not that we wouldn't want to know the history of a card's condition before every purchase; it's that there is no way to ascertain the history of your cards. For example, we don't know when the crease was first made; we don't know when the mark was first put on it; we don't know how the corners were worn; etc. We don't know how many owners the Lajoie has had from PSA 1 MK to PSA 2. We don't know who made the erasure. All I am saying is it doesn't matter who did what when, by currently sitting in a PSA 2 holder, we know that the card has a lot of condition issues -- one of which may very well be an erasure on the reverse.

The best we can hope for is a third-party service that upholds the standards that a majority of us accept for grading cards; and then consistently grades them that way. If PSA is your chosen service, then lobby PSA to uphold the standards that you want and then avoid making purchases that are not certified by PSA.