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Posted By: Bob

The issue has come up before about the "clock is running" refund policy. If you buy a card from any vintage card luminary who is very well known in the hobby and he says the card is not trimmed while you receive the card and instantly can tell that is, would you not want some kind of corroboration of your position. A case in point is a 1915 Cracker Jack I purchased from a well known dealer. It looked exmt but when I received it, I could see the top edge had likely been trimmed and there was a "bat ear" on the right corner. I immediately sent it off to SGC and it came back "trimmed." Since it takes a while to ship, receive, grade, re-ship and re-receive, I was outside the designated time limit. The seller was someone I had bought cards from before and perhaps because of that, he cordially refunded my money upon receipt of the card, although he disagreed with the trimmed assessment. Later I saw the card on ebay along with several other nice Cracker Jacks and there was no disclaimer so I guess he truly felt it was o.k.
I guess the point I am making in my rambling non-legalese way is that, while I think a long delay in asking for a refund and returning the card is certainly unreasonable, I think that a quick reply followed by a reasonable amount of time for a submission and return, is not stretching the parameters of due diligence. For the guy who is just an average card collecting Joe, getting an opinion from SGC to corroborate your own independently formed opinion, seems reasonable.