[Lucas00]

Hi folks,

I'm on my Gil Hodges career run hunt for topps and bowman cards and I see Battersbox sells a ton of raw nice looking cards. Some of them look great and are listed in vg-ex condition. You can see the corners aren't perfect they're sometimes a bit oc I would agree the cards are ex looking usually. However they use this paragraph in the description of every card-


Please note if a card looks too nice for the grade that we have applied, there is a reason why. We can not possibly explain every flaw in the title on 250,000+ cards, but they are graded accurately. It is not realistic to expect a card that looks NM in the scan to be NM if we grade it VG-EX or lower,not to have a crease, wrinkle or some other problem.

A few cards they have I'm looking at do look like nice excellent cards that they say are vg-ex. And the price seems very fair. But I'm concerned I'll get them and they will have obvious creases that scans don't show, which is unfortunately extremely common on eBay with raw cards. How can they expect somebody to buy a card with that paragraph? These aren't $1 commons I'm looking at. I would think they would list if a hofer card from the 50s is creased or not.

I think people take GM for granted, the simple fact they say crease in the title makes me honestly bid with them much more than expected.

Please let me know your experience. Thanks