Posted By:
AnonymousI am being asked to defend myself again, so for the sake of my consignors I will.
I did remove the ink with an eraser.
I do not think removing ink is alteration.
I do not think removing ink is cleaning a card.
I was asked had I done anything else to any cards in the auciton and I said no. When I was asked the question I was not thinking about auction lot number 96 but if I had I would have still not mentioned it.
Erasing pen is not cleaning or doctoring as it has been described by others.
It is a $200 in a 2.5 and it looks worse than when it did have writing on it. So it was not in my mind that it needed to be disclosed. Erasing ink or pencil so common in the hobby that it is a joke that I am being slammed for it.
This hobby is full of doctors and trimmers etc and none of it is disclosed. Try asking any auction house to disclose anything done to each and every card. I have offered a level of transperency that no other auction house has.