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petecldI think what some people don't understand is that a card that is trimmed or altered in some way they are STILL 1000% authentic. If you erase a pencil mark from your AUTHENTIC T206 Honus Wagner it would be ridiculous to say your card is no longer authentic.
If you take a T206 card and cut it in 2 pieces . . . you have two AUTHENTIC pieces of a T206 card.
Extreme examples: the chopped up items the card companies use for inserts, assuming the articles they use are authentic just by chopping them up into pieces doesn't mean the pieces aren't authentic. . they are just pieces cut from the whole. Another example is the guy who cuts out the little pictures from the guides - the cut out bits are still authentic, just not presented in their original context.
As far as comics goes I have yet to experience any collector who is adamantly against the practice CGC does with restored books. For the buyer it is a no loose situation. I think it's great and I really wish SGC had followed their sister company and been the hobby trail blazer and adopted the same practice years ago. Yes, some will say that people can still break the comic/card out and sell as un-restored but it is a poor argument to me since scum will always be scum and there will be nothing you can do about it except be vigilant against it.