[drcy]

An auction house should do serious and honest diligence on alteration detection, consideration and information dissemination. However, the graded cards are in plastic, and the grading companies should be ultimately responsible, including financially if there are issues. That's their stated policy.

Selling raw cards is an interesting possibility. I would imagine places like REA and Mile High would be good at examing raw cards, and I would trust REA's and some other folks' opinions over grading companies. Just as seasoned autograph collectors prefer who is the seller over what LOA an autograph comes from.

Would be kind of interesting if a future auction house sold raw cards with not only big clear photos, but UV and IR photos of the cards.