Gone with the stain

[GasHouseGang]

I think one of the interesting things he said in the article was this:

SCD: How many cards have you treated in your life?
Towle: Without exaggerating, probably 15,000-18,000 cards.

In 2008 when this article was written, he had been doing this for 15 years. It's now 11 years later so we can probably add at least 12,000 cards or so to that total. So one card doctor has done at least 27,000 cards, possibly many more. That's a lot of altered cards by one guy.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

And his work is more time-consuming than micro-trimming

[Johnny630]

Subpoena card doctors and their underlings financial accounts looking for purchases of micro trimming machines

[calvindog]

Originally Posted by Johnny630

Subpoena card doctors and their underlings financial accounts looking for purchases of micro trimming machines

I’m guessing you’ve never asked a judge to so order a subpoena. Just a hunch.

[murphy8276]

Originally Posted by calvindog

I’m guessing you’ve never asked a judge to so order a subpoena. Just a hunch.

He likely doesn't have the authority to do so...

[71buc]

For those who might be interested, these cards were worked on by GWTS.

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=269343

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

For an undetectable process the borders are significantly LESS white on the ones with ink removed.

[parkplace33]

Originally Posted by Johnny630

Subpoena card doctors and their underlings financial accounts looking for purchases of micro trimming machines

Microtrimmers? Is that something new?

[swarmee]

Basically, they're shaving off 1/64ths of an inch off a card to reduce corner and edge wear. Sometimes they cut off quite a bit more to make a card more centered to enable it to get a higher grade.

[iowadoc77]

Originally Posted by parkplace33

Microtrimmers? Is that something new?

Like nose hair trimmers I think

[GasHouseGang]

Larger scans....

[Leon]

Nice article. I have less of a problem with a substance removal (still not totally ok with it with unknown solvents) than I do the crease removal.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by GasHouseGang

I think one of the interesting things he said in the article was this:

SCD: How many cards have you treated in your life?
Towle: Without exaggerating, probably 15,000-18,000 cards.

In 2008 when this article was written, he had been doing this for 15 years. It's now 11 years later so we can probably add at least 12,000 cards or so to that total. So one card doctor has done at least 27,000 cards, possibly many more. That's a lot of altered cards by one guy.

No worries, CU's CEO and CFO say none of this is material, and judging by the stock price they must be right!