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John SI have an issue with cards that have been soaked, especially when this methodology is used to stretch a card that might not be the correct dimensions. Soaking to remove paper is not as objectionable but then you get into the gray area of card restoration, of which I am not a fan. I recently saw some Diamond Stars PSA 8's on ebay that had to be "cleaned" or chemically treated. I have handled hundreds of these cards and have never seen borders even approaching the brightness that these displayed. It could have been the image/scanner but the grouping of cards was too uniform in appearance.