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Posted By: jay behrens

No one is saying that every trimmed card submitted to PSA get slabbed with a number. What we are pointing out is that far too many trimmed cards ARE getting slabbed. I don't card what volume of business you are doing, if your business is to detect cards, then none should be getting through. We shouldn't be seeing the large number of questionable cards that we do in high grade PSA holders.

And yes, we are aware of size variations in the cards, but don't you find it curious that it's only the short cards that survive in high grade? Take a look at population of t206s in general. There should be a roughly equal number of short and long cards, since cutting a card short means making another card long. Yet if you look at all the t206s out there, oversized t206s are few and far between, yet you see an inordinate number of short cards. A lot this can be traced back to when Jim Copeland started paying huge money for NM t206s. I saw many collectors and dealers running around shows looking for oversized t206s they could trim down and hopefully pass off on Copeland or one of his buyers.

Jay

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