Opinions on Soaking/Pressing

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Posted By: cmoking

Let's say you bought a lot of 75 T206 SGC 60 cards at a fair price. A year later, you find the following:

25 cards have been soaked and wrinkles pressed out. The wrinkles have not come back, and you don't expect them to after all this time. You cannot detect there ever were any wrinkles on the card.

another 25 cards have been soaked to get glue/paper off of the card. You cannot detect that there was ever glue/paper on the card.

The other 25 cards you know nothing was done to them.

Now two situations:
A. If you knew what was done to each card, would you sell or otherwise get rid of the any of them?

B. If you didn't know what was done to each card, but knew that only 25 of them were not soaked - then what do you do? Do you sell or get rid of all 75 cards thinking that at least you are getting rid of 50 soaked cards?

I think this is a dilemma for modern day collectors. If cards are being soaked and things done to them that are not detectable in any way by anybody, then it means any card you buy, whether it be a SGC 40, a PSA 7 or anywhere in between, could have gone through some soaking. Does this mean an anti-soaker needs to get out of the hobby?