"The Scandal" Turns 3

[japhi]

Originally Posted by samosa4u

As a result of all of this, I have started buying more modern cards. With vintage cards, you can soak them, remove stains, whiten the paper stock, press out light creases, press down corners, recolor them, etc. Now, try doing all of this on modern card stock - you can't!

The only thing that I have to look out for when I buy modern is a) trimming and b) to make sure the jersey patch wasn't switched. However, most of the modern cards that I buy don't have patches, and so this isn't much of an issue.

Good luck with that. I remember reading a post on BO where they outed something like 50 McDavid FWA's as being trimmed. Apparently they come big from the factory and guys were trimming these into 10s in bulk. Not exactly a cheap card either.

Suspect it would be incredibly easy to do the same with most young guns. In fact, you could probably invest in a modern cutter and trim your way to glory with modern hockey, the TPG's have not demonstrated any ability to spot micro trimming on modern cards.