Nothing personal against anyone here, but can we stop with the herd mentality, please??? I'm sure there are plenty of people NOT commenting about how obvious this is, because they know the herd will then turn on them.
I even wrote a
'Collectorism' about this very issue:
383. Scantortionist
When a seller has obviously and deceptively photoshopped an image to make a card appear to be in much better shape than it really is, but an apologist jumps in to argue, “No, it’s just because of the scanner settings used.”
Let's do a little common sense
Occam's Razoring on it.
What do you think is more likely?
1. A scanner setting just happened to
accidentally remove the one specific thing that turns the card into a hugely valuable one.
2. A seller
purposefully removed the one specific thing to turn the card into a hugely valuable one.
Since he didn't mention it being the 'missing dot' variation in the listing, he ensures he has plausible deniability. And, as for Photoshop, there is something called the 'clone tool' that would literally take a total of 2 seconds to remove the dot and match the now-empty space flawlessly to the background. Simplest thing in the world.
Edited to add:
As such...
doylenodotfake.jpg
(Literally took closer to one second than two to disappear the dot.)