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Brian CollieI must admit that it is sort of disconcerting to see that so many of you are willing to alter a card by erasing marks. Out of curiosity, for those of you who do erase pencil marks, do you disclose this to potential buyers? Some have justified this by saying "if it wasn't there when manufactured, then you can take it off of the card" - wouldn't this however apply to creases, bent corners, etc. as well?
I for one would be very upset to buy a card only to find after the fact that it was altered. I bought a SGC40 Bresnahan T3 from a member on this board only to find a few weeks later in looking through an old Madec catalog that it was previously in a PSA A holder and went for $400 less than what I paid. Needless to say, I was quite upset. I for one would not feel comfortable selling the card to another buyer without disclosing this - as a result, the value of my card has gone down tremendously.
Seems like a very slippery slope to me. In my opinion, if you are willing to erase pencil marks, you don't have much basis for being upset if someone sold you a trimmed card or card that had creases removed. Who knows, perhaps in the seller's opinion any altering that makes a card more attractive is acceptable.