Baseball card restoration

[drumback]

I don't know about baseball cards, but Jaime has restored a couple of movie posters for me, which is completely acceptable in the movie poster industry. One had several chunks of paper completely torn off at various places. Now it looks almost brand new. It is amazing work that he does. I would post before and after pics, but my pics are too large, and I don't know how to reduce them. Anyway, he is extremely talented at what he does.

[Peter_Spaeth]

No doubt most of what he does is not at all controversial.

[Leon]

I have mixed feelings. Certainly not illegal unless done to defraud.
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[Casey2296]

Just like anything else, nobody takes it serious until someone goes to jail for fraud. Until then caveat emptor.

[Peter_Spaeth]

I think it's a gray area if as a professional restorer you're not actively participating in any fraud, but you have a pretty good idea of why certain clients are using your services. Perhaps not gray legally, but ethically? I actually had a very productive conversation once with a woman who did this work (she had impeccable credentials in the museum world as I recall) and even though it was pointed out to her that certain cards she had "improved" had been graded by PSA (I forget the details now), she was insistent her responsibility ended when the customer paid the bill.

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

I think it's a gray area if as a professional restorer you're not actively participating in any fraud, but you have a pretty good idea of why certain clients are using your services. Perhaps not gray legally, but ethically? I actually had a very productive conversation once with a woman who did this work (she had impeccable credentials in the museum world as I recall) and even though it was pointed out to her that certain cards she had "improved" had been graded by PSA (I forget the details now), she was insistent her responsibility ended when the customer paid the bill.

Haha, and the Germans had no idea about the camps. Very convenient.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

Haha, and the Germans had no idea about the camps. Very convenient.

The bottom line was that we agreed to disagree. If memory serves this was at the beginning of the "scandal" and I sent her some links to information about what (at the time anyhow) seemed to be a serious federal investigation; whether that deterred her I dunno we did not speak again.