Problem with Legendary Lot . . . Opinions?

[tschock]

Just read through this entire thread. One thing that bugs me.

A ) It seems there is quite a bit of sentiment along the lines that a buyer should buy an SGC 10 with the ASSUMPTION that "these cards were a 10, so you should have expected something that would detract from a higher grade, regardless of what you could actually see or not." Or something along those lines.
B ) Yet the prevailing mantra is "buy the card, not the holder" (implying the grade on the holder).
These 2 ideas are at odds with each other.

Buying an SGC 10 card with "something wrong" where you cannot tell what is wrong is simply buying the holder. The card itself doesn't matter since there is "something wrong", which could be anything that would put that card into a 10 category. If that's the case, then this is NOT a value judgement from the buyer of the card ITSELF. Or at least to what extent the buyer can see from any scans.

Also as we all know, all 10s, 20s, etc are not created equal. And we ALL have our preferences when we "buy the card, not the holder". If a card already has ONE defect that will lower it to a 10, then additional defects don't matter... to the HOLDER. But they might matter to the buyer who is buying the CARD.

This has nothing to do with who's at fault, bad scans, etc. Just to point that A and B above are conflicting positions.

One other thing I find disconcerting, assuming David's discussion with Legendary went down as mentioned, is that Legendary would not accept a return on a SLABBED item yet they offer satisfaction guaranteed?