Posted By:
Brian GoldnerBest news that i've heard all day Leon.
Though there are significant issues here to address, it becomes a difficult problem to approach, when it is not clear whom or how many people are performing the various alterations that are deemed unpermissable.
I certainly appreciate the fact that many throughout the hobby are concerned about this (myself included), and hopefully some constructive conclusions may be reached, to provide a partial solution to these issues.
With regard to a full solution, i just don't believe it to be possible, without the grading services eventually becoming equipped with technology that is able to detect the highest quality of professional restoration.
In the meantime, it would be advantagous if the Collectors, Dealers, and Grading Services could be on the same page, on all of these sensitive issues.
Working together will work far better than the divide and conquer mentality, that seems to be the norm here these days.
From this perspective, the multiple threads have crowded out what i thought was the major reason that this board exists, and all for the sake of accusation, and the resultant in-house fighting.
I've done quite a bit of thinking about this today, and considering the number of threads, and that the general tone of the discussion seems to be non-solution based, i have to wonder what exactly the agenda really is here.
Perhaps there is more to this, than meets the eye.