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Originally Posted by rats60
I disagree with this. I do think they want the hobby cleaned up. The problem is the ability to detect alterations. Once there is a company that can do this at a high rate, I think buyers will want their cards to be inspected upon purchase. Cash is king and the buyers hold all the power. Once altered cards can no longer be sold to buyers, only then will things change for the better.
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Regarding their inability to detect alterations...
True in most cases, but I think there's more going on. Many of those trimmed cards are ridiculously short in their holders, and are so obviously trimmed. The amount of air space between the cards' borders and the "frame" is astounding, and there's no explanation as to why those cards passed. Some of the re-touched and re-colored cards are obvious upon first glance. Countless examples of amateurish restoration.
I could go on and on, but bottom-line is that PSA is either...
A. Spending no time inspecting these
B. Is incompetent to perform the one thing they're supposed to do
C. Is granting favorable grades to certain entities
D. Is simply turning a blind eye in many cases
It can only be one, or a mixture of all 4 of the reasons above. And none of those reasons bode well for them. I know that the registry crowd and heavily-invested client base will continue to support them, regardless. But the rest of us should take a stand.
Sorry to ramble, and didn't mean to nitpick the quoted post, as I agree with everything else that was said. But if PSA would just address the damned issue head-on and admit some level of responsibility, it might represent a good start towards fixing this.