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Julie Vognar I don't like it. It tickles my nose (this goes for soft drinks and sparkling water as well). Of late, I have been ccasionally indulging in single malt scotch. The good ones are like a symphony of flavors.
Seems to me, when I started collecting in 1979, a vg=ex card could have minor creasing, an ex card could have very slightly rounded corners but no creasing, and a mint card was perfect to the naked eye. I don't remember there being any "near mint" grade. "ex-mint" could have a minor flaw, like being slightly off center, Some slightly soft corners, but not All. The thing that bugs me the most about the dealer and grader grades (which have been getting more and more lenient, it seems to me), is that a neat mint card, or an ex-mint cad, can be what I'd call way off center, and anything that came with the printing process doesn't count--like a double image--which i wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.
The picture is most important
The corners and centering come next.
The back is important too, but, especially with blank backs, not as important.
Julie 