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Posted By: Kevin Cummings

Aren't we talking here about an empirical versus a scientific determination?

I, like others, have bought from Lew and will continue to do so. I have never had any issue with what his grade was versus what my grade was based on our own interpretations of the same card, but others on this board have already said that he tends to overgrade things by at least one grade. That seems to imply that he could be wrong about certain things based on characteristics that can be seen with the naked eye. How, then, can he be so sure that a card is not trimmed when that is not always so readily apparent?

I would hope that any grading company would subject the cards they are grading to more than just an eyeball check. Regardless of measured size, if a detailed inspection under high magnification revealed characterisitcs that would indicate edgewear not consistent with how the card would have left the manufacturer, wouldn't that say that that there was a high probablility that the card had been altered after the fact?

I realize that in the end both are just opinions, but if one was based on physical examination and the other was based on mere conjecture, I'd tend to lean towards believing the more scientifically developed one.