Random mini-rant

[JollyElm]

Your point is dead on, and it is seemingly rampant. Unfortunately, there's no real solution to your concern. Whenever someone brings up trimming, the result will usually be someone angrily stating how there was always variance in the sizes of Topps cards, etc., etc., so who is anyone to say a card has been trimmed??!!

All anyone can do, again unfortunately, is watch out for oneself. Make sure anything you buy fits pretty/relatively/decently snugly in that holder. Like many, many others, I have passed on countless PSA cards on ebay that were swimming in the slabs. Were they trimmed? An objective person would say there's probably a better chance they were than they weren't, but even though there is no way to actually know for sure, I am happy to pass on them and look for something else.