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Josh K."Soaking to remove a crease so the card presents better in your own collection, that is tollerable, at least to me."
And what about when that card "for the collection" inevitably comes back to the market?
T206 - I tend to agree that we cant worry about what may have happened to our cards before we obtained them. What I do have a problem with is cards that have wrinkles but are graded as though they should not (for exmaple, psa 4s or sgc 50s) - I always wonder whether these cards were misgraded or soaked to remove a wrinkle, graded properly, and then, after being graded, the wrinkle came back. (I know sgc's standards would permit a small wrinkle on an sgc 50 - nevertheless, you rarely see them follow that standard. Ive found that cards with small wrinkles almost never do better than a 40. I suspect psa's standards are similar).