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Posted By: warshawlaw

I was all in favor of the authentic grade. Now I am not because the way it has played out has been that any piece of crap, no matter how altered, is being labeled authentic. I've seen cards with trimmed borders slabbed as authentic, cards with areas colored in slabbed as authentic, etc. Consequently, I no longer will have my cards labeled that way nor will I buy any cards labeled that way. The graders need to start specifying what is wrong with a card on the flip if "authentic" is to mean anything other than "altered".