Trimming Frauds Revealed | How Does It Impact Vintage???

[barrysloate]

I don't think the realization that trimmed cards are being slabbed will have that much of an impact on the hobby for a simple reason: too many very wealthy and powerful people have huge amounts of money invested in slabbed cards, and they will not let anything get in the way of them profiting on their investment. The news will just get swept under the rug like so many other things in our world today.

In short, financial gain trumps the truth.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

I don't think the realization that trimmed cards are being slabbed will have that much of an impact on the hobby for a simple reason: too many very wealthy and powerful people have huge amounts of money invested in slabbed cards, and they will not let anything get in the way of them profiting on their investment. The news will just get swept under the rug like so many other things in our world today.

In short, financial gain trumps the truth.

I wonder how many of the newer generation of collectors even care.

[barrysloate]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

I wonder how many of the newer generation of collectors even care.

They probably do not. If the slab says it's good, then it's good.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

They probably do not. If the slab says it's good, then it's good.

Barry you may recall the great Wallace Stevens line, What we said of it became a part of what it was.

[MikeGarcia]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Barry you may recall the great Wallace Stevens line, What we said of it became a part of what it was.

..I was born around the corner from where he was born....small world..

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[barrysloate]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Barry you may recall the great Wallace Stevens line, What we said of it became a part of what it was.

Don't recall the line, but it's as true today as it was when he wrote it.

[Exhibitman]

"How about if those non compete contracts were paid for with compensation in order to be able to be upheld?"

Doesn't matter in Cali: the contract is illegal regardless of whether you paid or got paid to enter into it. Texas, I have no idea.

But I digress.

Unfortunately, as is apparent in the threads on Blowout (and indeed in much of public life today), even in the face of hard evidence there is a segment of the population that will cling to false ideas; whether out of greed, stupidity or other reasons, who can say? It is only made worse in this hobby by the long history of wrong grades and wrong conclusions by TPGs. After all, if they got the grade wrong, authenticated a fake or pre-print, etc., then maybe there is a chance they got this one right despite the pre- and post-operative images. Or maybe the scanner caused the card to look trimmed or damaged. Or maybe a flying monkey spirited the card away to Oz and magically transformed it into a ten. All are equally likely...denial is not just a river in Egypt.