"MK" Qualification
 

Does anyone have any insight on how much writing a card needs to get an MK? For example, if you had two perfectly identical NM cards and one had a ink dot from a pen and the other had the guys last name written across the card, would they both get a 7MK? Is writing writing, no matter how much?

Any mark/writing perceptible to the average eye, no matter how small, would and should get the "MK" qualifier.

And yes it absolutely destroys the value of the card, even if it's otherwise an 8/9 etc.

thanks, but i was more wondering if the card with the name written on it would get and numerical grade reductions on top the MK for its abundant ink, as opposed to the one with the dot.

nope as far as i know a mark is a mark

A name written on a blank back might only get an MK qualifier. But I think if someone scrawled the name across the front it would be a "1". Just my opinion.

i think it would get a qualigier regardless

perhaps, but I find it hard to believe that the amount of marking doesn't matter. That's like saying a rounded corner is a rounded corner.

rounded corner pen mark not the same
 

The card is graded as if no mark is present than given the mk. that said they can use the indentation marks made by a pen to lower the grade if significant. Thats why they are qualifiers you grade the card as if that qualifier was not present than assign a grade. The rounded corner is not the same thing as there is no rounded corner qualifier.

I would think the card with the name written across the front would be a "1" and get the "mk" attatched. A mark is mark no matter how small and how hard we try to say its small...agreed that it all destroys the value of the card.