My pet peeve in action
 

Since when has a top to left shift orientation qualified as "Perfect centering?"

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1952-TOPPS-3...item1c3292b8ed

Maybe I am missing something, but I don't see where the seller calls it "perfect". The only claim is that it is "Awesome Centering".

I certaily get what you are saying. Sellers over exagerate the " quality " of the cards and items they sell. Listing cards as " rare " when they are not, centered when they are not, ex or exmt when they are not. And then over price the items to boot. If the card is so valuable to the seller, I would hate to buy it from them. So I never will, nor will anyone else. All my pet peeves as well.

I wrote the seller earlier today suggesting his listing wasn't offerinng an accurate description. At the time he said "perfect centering" but now it has been changed to "awesome centering." Kudos to him for doing the right thing (though even "awesome centering" is a bit of a stretch). To me unless it's centered on at least one axis, left to right, or top to bottom, it's not well centered, certainly not "awesome[ly] centered."

Well, regardless of the adjectives he uses, at least there's a picture there. I think a lot of people forget "the good ol' days", when you would order something from a dealer with that description in SCD, and you wouldn't know until you opened the package that there was an entire border missing on the card.

Ok that clears it up. Yeah I wouldn't say the use of awesome is great, but at least it is more of a relative term that isn't verifiable.

"Awesome" is the most overused, missused, abused
and therefore meaningless adjective in American English, in my useless opinion.

Awesome post!!

Well, for my part, I am in AWE of that card's centering.

That 52T IS very nicely centered. Certainly not "perfect", but nice.

Dressen
 

I think the horse died....

http://media.photobucket.com/user/Ro...eos&sort=1&o=0

I think it is a very nice PSA 1.