[36GoudeyMan]

Not a joke or sarcastic: my wife works in IT, in cybersecurity, actually. Her company hires outside people to try to hack into her company's systems, and, if they do, and document what they did (show how its done so it can be fixed), the company pays a bounty (several thousand dollar actually). The benefit of the small bounty is a vastly more secured and tested system.

What if TPGs paid bounties (money, free grading, something) to outside individuals who seek out and find and document trimmed/altered cards so that the TPGs can ban the submitters, get info on the trimmers, etc.? (Oh yeah, and do something about them when found). The value of the greater scrutiny (hobby-wide by innumerable pairs of eyes) might get the TPGs back in the business of screening cards rather than screwing buyers of their slabs.

Just a random thought.