Posted By:
Kenny ColeMW,
Thank you for that deeply insightful and illuminating post. Until you brought it to my attention, I had never given due consideration to the obvious truism that "either a card is trimmed or it is not." WOW!!! Your statement says so much, yet, at the same time, so very little. How typical.
So, let me ask you, the self-professed expert, this question: If a card is submitted to a grading company, lets say SGC, and it comes back "trimmed," and it is then re-submitted and comes back a 60, is it trimmed or is it a 60? It obviously can't be both. In fact, once having gotten an opinion that it was trimmed, I suppose it is probably deceitful and dishonest even to re-submit the card for a second look. After all, according to you, there is no room for reasonable dispute on such black and white matters. In that regard, what "5 minute" phone call do the experts make when they disagree?
If I recall correctly, a while back, you sold a graded card that you THOUGHT had actually been trimmed. You said that in your description. At the time, I thought that was very admirable. However, if I understand the tenor of your current post correctly, I should actually have been quite critical. You did not take the proverbial "5 minutes," which is all that it supposedly would have taken, to determine whether the card you were selling was trimmed or not. Instead, you made an educated guess.
Having been given the benefit of your deeply incisive post on the issue, we all now know that "maybe, perhaps, might be or even possibly just don't cut it." After all, "either a card is trimmed or it is not." True?
By guessing, you violated the rule you profess to live by. If I am following the rationale of this post correctly, I guess that makes you both a liar and a hypocrite. Who'da thunk it?