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Originally Posted by darkhorse9
I think one issue here (legally) is that there is no legal definition of a baseball card grade. It's an opinion.
If I trim a card and say it's now mint, then it's mint. No law has been broken by being a real crappy person and doing that. Now if the buyer asks if it's been trimmed I have to disclose that.
A TPG exists only on reputation. They can't be legally held liable for their grading standards or procedures.
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Grading is a 2 step process - authentication
then grading. Grading is subjective. Authentication is not. It's either altered or it isn't. There is no gray area there. And if a TPG assigns a numeric grade to a card (instead of an AUTHENTIC), they're basically stating that the card has not been altered.