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Posted By: jay behrens

I wondered the same thing myself. Why is a trimmed card ungradable, yet a strip card that ahs been cut from it's panel or strip ok to grade? I've seriously considered trimming the w572 Grover Alexander I have becuase the boarders are fat and would go from being Ex to NM+ by being trimmed and the slabbers would have no problem with it being trimmed and 'in spec' since it's a strip card.

Personally, I don't have a problem with slabbers grading trimmed cards. The words "TRIMMED" or a "TR" on a grade would be the death sentance to anyone's hopes of a big profit and people would know it's trimmed. But you know that people looking to make serious money on the card are going to crack it out and sell it raw since a raw, trimmed card will most likely sell for more than a graded trimmed card.

Another reason to slab trimmed cards, for someone like me, I don't do it becuase the card will sell for more, but just to protect the card in general (and SGC holders make a card look good). If I send a card in and don't realsize it is trimmed, I still want it slabbed. I paid to have the card graded AND slabbed. If you are going to reject a card for being trimmed and not slab it, then you better be refunding me some money since you didn't bother finishing the grading process or slabbing the card.

Jay