[chadeast]

Here are two copies of a card that I'm actively looking to purchase, both from high profile ebay sellers that we all know. For me, color and sharpness on this card are as important, or even more important than corners or centering. It's just my thing, on '33 Goudeys especially. And that makes buying such a high dollar card on the internet really tough. For example, is the card on the left really more faded than the card on the right, or is it just scanner differences? Or did one seller use Photoshop to artificially increase color saturation? The flip can give this away sometimes when the scan is clearly "enhanced", but often the differences are subtle enough that I just don't know. I wonder if anyone else struggles with this and has perhaps found ways to work around it.

My current solution to this is that I just take a chance, when the card is not too expensive. But that doesn't work here.

Thanks for any tips you might have.