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T206Collector...but I will restate that no one is saying lower grade cards don't get altered. But there is no incentive to trim a card with a wrinkle because it will still have the wrinkls. A T206 card with sharp corners and a wrinkle is still a 3. Similarly, with a 3 or 4 with rounded corners and a wrinkle, pressing the wrinkle out is still going to keep you at 3 or 4 depending on the corner rounding.
However, you can take a 4, 5, 6 or 7 with rounded corners and no creases and make that baby an 8 if you can microtrim it well enough.
It is not that there is no incentive to alter lower grade cards, or that it doesn't happen -- the point is that you can jump many grades (FROM 4 TO 8!) if you know how to artfully trim a card with rounded corners and make the corners sharp. That is a huge jump with just one kind of alteration that we all know takes place.
Finally, if you include in your definition of "altered" removing glue and gunk from the back of cards by soaking, or erasing pencil marks with art erasers, then yes, there are a TON of low grade altered cards in the market. But what most of us mean we say that PSA 8 pre-war cards have a higher risk factor, we are saying that there may have been microtrimming done -- no one is microtrimming creased 3's. Moreover, PSA and SGC encapsulate the soaked and erased cards, but they are not supposed to encapsulate the trimmed ones.