Grading Standards - New vs. Old

[Jlighter]

It is hard to tell if a card is trimmed from a scan on a computer.

If I'm spending like, 5 dollars for a card, yeah I'll take the risk of it being fake or not. If I'm spending a 100 dollars, I would like a guarentee from a established company, not from someone that I've never met.

If I ever have to sell a card it is much easier to sell a graded one, then a non graded one.

[vintagetoppsguy]

The card in question looks G/VG to me.

I disagree about not grading cards. If I'm buying a card of any significant value online, I look for graded cards only. I don't care how good the scan is, sometimes a scan doesn't pick up tiny surface wrinkles or, as the previous poster stated, trimming.

However, if I'm buying the card in person, I don't mind buying raw at all. I've been doing this well over 25 years and I can spot just about anything in person that I might otherwise miss in a scan.

That said, I crack and display raw most of the graded cards that I buy.