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Todd Schultzbut I'm just wondering... If the card were removed from the holder, the pencil marks erased, the card re-submited to SGC, and it comes back again SGC10 Poor, what's the difference?
Guy wants an authentic card-he got it. It's in poor condition. Was its appearance altered--I guess so, now its not. Now it's worth less because it looks poorer than poor? Ok, what's the diminution in value here?
I guess I can understand, barely, that the guy was rest assured the card was authentic and unaltered because SGC slabbed it and they only slab authentic and unaltered, but I'm just curious how much you all think was added as value to this particular card by having it slabbed. Sold raw as is by David Bryan, what do you think it would fetch?
My thoughts are, yeah, it's embarrassing, and yeah, someone should have caught it, but at the end of the day what's the real difference, again with this one card. Personally, I think the rhetorical question about how many others slip through the cracks is pretty much nonsense if this is the so-called prime example of a card grading tragedy.
Just my two cents.