[Snowman]

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

First, I doubt this is true

You would.

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

Second, that's irrelevant. What a manufacturer does to a card before it's packed out becomes part of production. What a person does to a card after it comes out of the pack is alteration. The manufacturer isn't altering a card pre-pack out by definition. A manufacturer cuts cards before putting them in packs. That doesn't mean a consumer can cut them and it not be alteration.

It's certainly not irrelevant to the argument that everyone opposed to card cleaning uses when they say that the reason you shouldn't use rubbing alcohol on cards is because we don't know what the long term effects are of using it. They are, of course, wrong, but that's a different discussion.