Posted By:
Brad L."Collectors should learn how to grade cards on their own"
Herein lies the biggest problem you seem to be having, accepting the fact that the graded card market is what it is and isn't going anywhere anytime soon. You can perform all the experiments that you want to all the grading companies and that isn't going to make them go away. I sort of find it hard to understand what the motivation is to trim cards and see if they get slabbed. For one, the company wouldn't slab a trimmed card if you didn't send in a trimmed card (I see it as adding to a problem that is infrequent in the first place, but of course negatives are looked at harder than positives). And if the "quality" of the work is what you are condemning, then you are never going to be happy with a grading company because they all make mistakes. I highly suggest taking someone's advice from above, and get out of the graded card market because you really don't seem to have a grasp on it. And that the little that you do seem to know, is being slowly buried with malicious experiments that add nothing to the hobby. Every card grading company has slabbed trimmed cards, so I'm not sure that you've uncovered anything that everyone didn't already know. Try to re-evaluate how you look at this hobby, it doesn't seem like you're having much fun.