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jay behrensHow does Jeff's wanting clarification on Doug's answer being a bad customer? Doug's initial answer was ambiguous, at best. Even I wanted clarification because Doug claimed that Mastro would be following SGC/PSA guideline, yet he had early come on this board and stated that Mastro does things to cards that violate these guidelines. Why anyone wouldn't want that clarified is beyond me.
Shane, I've been in this hobby a very long time. Few on this board can claim to have been around longer. As Scott Elkins pointed out, trimming and altering cards was never a real issue until Jim Copeland came on the scene and made all the doctoring cards a worthwhile propositions. I remember being set up at a show at the Moscone Center in SF. Someone asked me if I had any oversized t206s and really low grade 33 Goudey's. I asked if that's what he collected. He said, no. He wanted the t206s to trim down and try to sell to Copeland and Goudeys to turn to pulp so that he could fix up other Goudeys with original stock.
That was my wake up call to what was really happening in the hobby. Even back then, I never chased high grade cards, but from that point forward, I never looked at a NM card the same way again.
Jay
I love pinatas. You get to beat the crap of something and get rewarded with candy.