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Judge DredI've made purchases from SV before he provided nice scans. Yes, he is a bit liberal in his grading. I haven't purchased anything from him in a long time because of the first few times I purchased items from him (low standards).
Now that large scans are available it should be fairly straight forward to see what you'll receive. Regardless of the liberal grading it's up to you to decide whether or not you might still want the item (based on the large scans). And don't forget (as mentioned several times in this thread) to check the back of the cards.
By the way, SV is not the only person that may neglect taking back damage into consideration when grading a card.
You've seen the ads - "scrap book remnants are on the back of the card along with a large glue stain but it's ExMt otherwise."