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Originally Posted by bnorth
LOL, No it is only accepted by those that do it. If anyone has never soaked a card it greatly enhances the card in many ways. The number 1 thing is you can now sell it for way more. I have also noticed the majority of those that have no problem soaking cards DO NOT want to buy cards that have been soaked. If you list a card as being soaked it will sell for less than if you didn't disclose the soaking.
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Soaking a card in water would almost never result in being able to sell it for "way more" afterward. The vast majority of the time, the card would regrade the same with or without soaking. In some cases, it might get a slightly better grade, like going from a 3 to a 4 or something, but that wouldn't even be enough of a difference to cover the regrading costs and auction fees. I suppose there could be some extremely rare circumstances where soaking a card results in 2 grade bumps or more, but that would be pretty rare like with an EXMT card that was badly warped from a humid environment or something. But it's not like trimming where you can turn a 5 into a 10 or anything extreme like that. In general, you're talking about very minor improvements in a card's overall appearance by soaking it in water.