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Originally Posted by Dpeck100
If there are ways to clean cards and improve them without a grading company being able to tell than it is impossible to stop it.
I am not certain though that high end buyers are totally in the dark on this issue based on Brent's video. Most wouldn't watch it because they can't stand the guy. I watched the entire video and it appears this "conservation" has taken place to many cards and the way he framed it was it was very well known.
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To your first point, then what value does grading have?
To your second, it's not like the video was posted on Brent's website or
www.psacard.com for anyone to see it except for people like us who read message boards.
Since you agree that the "alterations" are widespread ("conservation" just being subterfuge), and PSA and other grading companies are INCOMPETENT at their core mission of detecting alterations, where do we go from here? How long until the word actually spreads among the collectors that aren't on message boards and nobody pays PSA/Beckett/SGC thousands of dollars a year (or card) on grading fees because there is no longer a premium awarded for high-grade cards?