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Originally Posted by Gorditadogg
I think the market is just ignorant of the issue. Most collectors don't know who BODA is or what is in the Tiffany database. Doesn't mean they don't care. They just assume PSA is watching over everything.
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Certainly, that's true to some extent, but I think the majority are indifferent at best. Most collectors have at least heard about it, but they just don't care enough to research all the details. Which is to say, they're not bothered by it enough to actually do something about it or change their behavior. Whether that's the same as endorsing it or not doesn't really matter, because it ultimately has the same effect.
Then you gave guys like Rick Probstein who stated in a social media video on Instagram that if he were to find out that cards in his collection had been trimmed, it wouldn't bother him at all because they were good enough to pass through grading and that's all he cares about.
If most people can't even be bothered by the trimming scandal, I think we can deduce where they'd stand on something as benign as cleaning, soaking, and flattening out smashed up corners.