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Paul SThis issue is truly a double-edged sword.
To me it always benefits the seller to get this kind of card graded, except for when a card presents well raw and a grade would actually cast it in a poor light. On that latter point, the seller's getting the short end. Still, overall it is still "unfair" to make a seller grade their cards.
For the buyer, Joann for example, she's getting penalized for all the hard work she's put in as a collector, to be able to buy genuine nice raw cards because she knows what she's doing.
But any buyer with a cavalier attitude who goes after a card like this and doesn't even know in the first place what the card should look like...well, I can't say they "deserve" to be cheated, or should be cheated, but certainly they should know enough to call in a second opinion or whatever else they have to do. Caveat emptor. IMO, I think ebay is protecting itself and not really the buyer or seller, even though it's meant to "clean up the hobby."