Posted By:
Judson HamlinYou all get a time out. This is like watching my seven year old and four year old snipe at one another over sensless nothings, and then tattletale on each other.
We all have our niche in this hobby/business and whether it is the type of card, grade of card, player or whatever other criterea we all look for, as long as we enjoy our own little corner of it all, why do we have to pee in each other's Wheaties? I've never soaked a card, mostly out of fear that I would damage it and I wouldn't be able to enjoy it, but the thought that I may have bought a soaked card doesn't infuriate me. I can see how a collector/investor, operating in a higher end than I, would want that information as part of the decision-making process. Restoration is an acccepted and often necessary element of preserving documents and books, and many early works have been lost due to deterioration of inks or from decompostion due to the acid content of paper, especially in the 19th century. Any restoration work, whether to a comic book or a 17th century map is generally noted by sellers and goes into the buyer's personal calculation as to value and desireability. There are buyers who would rather have a worm-holed original than a reinforced, restored, more pristine copy of the same document and vice versa. Not good/bad or right/wrong.
You can come out of your rooms now, but no poking.
edited for long weekend grammar. And stay on your side of the forum.