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Morrie"It's a matter of ethics. It's not whether or not a given card in your own collection has ever been altered in it's travels prior to it residing with you, it's more about whether or not you have soaked, are soaking or would be willing to soak for condition enhancement. I'm against it. If your answer is yes I do it than it's sad you feel that way."
People who purchase low-grade cards with the sole intention of altering them and subsequently taking advantage of grading companies' inability to detect the alteration to make a profit are behaving unethically. I think that's a given.
"Overlooking or grudgingly accepting the fact that a small percentage of cards have been tweaked over the years is one thing; but Espousing and utilizing the "Doctoring 101" methodology of soaking cards is bad ethics."
This is not. Not all card soaking is done for profit-based reasons. Some of it really is, quite simply, because collectors like to see as much of the card as still exists. It also doesn't do much good to bemoan the cat being out of the bag, since I don't know about anyone else, but literally everything I know about card soaking, I learned on this board. This thread contains no information that wasn't already archived here, and since I don't believe that sharing information is wrong (barring things that threaten actual harm to people, which this doesn't), posting and re-posting it isn't something I can accept as unethical, either.
I respect your opinion, but I disagree with the extent to which you're willing to generalize it.
Morrie "my last name's further up the thread too, moderator dude" Mullin s