Stunning quote on altered cards

[WhenItWasAHobby]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

From an email from Evan Mathis to Sports Illustrated. Quote below and then link to article.

"To the purists who think a card should always be in its original condition: That just isn’t going to happen in the current state of the industry, and you should avoid buying graded cards.”

https://www.si.com/mlb/2021/07/06/to...ow-daily-cover

If Evan's right, the TPGs may not even be trying except in blatant cases.

Nothing shocks me anymore when it comes to altered cards. It's the best example of a true-to-life Bizarro World.

I predict that sometime in the near future, the only problem in the sportscard business will be the so-called "purists" with their disparaging and damaging rhetoric about alterations being bad or unethical thus being a major threat to the industry, third-party grading and investors.