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Originally Posted by JollyElm
Is doing this a bad thing? An unethical thing?
Since the card was only returned to its original shape, do these 'alterations' (with no drastic measures used) make the card a fraud?
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1) Of course it is not a bad thing or an unethical thing. It is your property, you may treat your property however you wish as its rightful owner. While I sometimes don't like a thing an owner does to their property (like the guys who immediately destroy uncut sheets that have immense research value to the hobby without even documenting them first) it is their property and they may rightfully do whatever they wish.
2) Of course not; the fraud is when a seller covers up material facts about the card. I don't believe a single person on this board has ever argued that it is fraud to do something to a card and then to honestly state you did so when you are selling it. It's only fraud when it is sold without honest representation of what was done, covering up the pertinent facts to juice the price.