Posted By:
Gilbert Maines (when he was younger)
E. Daniel, you write:
“and the logical progression for grading their condition is to judge that cutting effort,”
I take it that you are in favor of determining a card’s condition based on the skill level of a child with a pair of scissors, or sometimes his ability to accurately rip cardboard. I imagine right now that heaven holds lots of those kids who are, as Leon says ROFLMAO. (or something like that).
But as far as the grading companies are concerned, this is exactly where we are. And worse, if the card contains dotted lines, or once did, in order to achieve the highest grade, all of the dotted lines must remain on the card.
I can almost remember as a kid cutting things along the dotted lines. I was not too good at that, but what I attempted to do was not to bisect the dotted line, but to actually leave the dotted line on that portion of the cut out which was intended to be discarded. It is tuff to be sure about this for me, but I believe that I did not want the dotted lines on my stuff. Maybe your memory is better. Or maybe you wanted the dotted lines on your items.
You wonder why we are a bunch of loons … this grading stuff is totally out of control. Well that, and some of us were looney long before the grading companies.
It was called “cut inside the dotted line”.