[Goudey77]

Originally Posted by RiceBondsMntna2Young

I appreciate your reply, but it’s nonsensical. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t defer to TPGs on what constitutes unacceptable alteration and then criticize them for their outdated stance. They have a stance, you just don’t agree with it.
TPG current stance are not aligned with their actual delivered product at the moment. I think we can all agree to this
It’s obvious that you do have an opinion about what should be tolerated. After all, you started an entire thread about it. You sketched out the contours of what you think their stance should be - PWCC’s newly articulated one, as far as I can tell. I started this thread to show examples of what could be a satisfactory solution to TPG’s involvement with vetting conservation and restoring. Please see the CGC video I posted as it was alarmingly apparent that our industry TPG are dead silent and promote a very grey area when it comes to this. CGC does a wonderful job and shows their competence. Silence and inability to speak openly on policies does not help anyone if we continue to live by the slab concept.

And to take a step back, I also find it difficult to believe that you think so little of us collectors (or consumers as you put it), that we lack the agency to help set where the red line is in our own hobby. These “gatekeeper” companies exist at our pleasure, as I hope they’re all soon finding out. In fact, I thought you were calling on everyone to have an opinion and make it known so we can achieve a new, better understanding. we have no agency plain and simple. But people are quick to criticize when vocal companies like PWCC want to stir the pot and introduce change and discussion

I find it impossible to believe that you, as a person who collects baseball cards, have absolutely no opinion on whether trimming a baseball card constitutes acceptable behavior. That seems disingenuous.
At the end of the day it’s that collaboration of industry leaders who will seal that fate and make a declaration on this matter. My opinion does not matter on a message board

Thanks again!

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