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JKSorry Frank - but I think that most of your post is entirely wrong. You are correct that new stuff is held in low regard - particularly new football as this is a baseball card board. That's really not relevant to the question though and the question was honestly and fairly answered.
What I disagree with is your claim that "many" on this board:
"seek out perfect, unblemished cards. A mark on the back is too much."
"have no tollerance for any alteration or manipulation of the card, so removing anything is unacceptable."
"desire graded cards, and if a marked card won't grade, they have little use for it."
If there is one thing I think is fair to say from many of the recent posts on this topic, its that most on this board (ie the majority) do not seek out unblemished cards and find a mark to be too much and do have a tolerance for minor things like removing a pencil mark.
As for your comment on graded cards - yes, most prefer graded. The second part of your statement is patently untrue unless, by marked, you mean recolored.