Opinions on Soaking/Pressing

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Posted By: RayB

Al,
Sort of like the questionaire to find out if your at risk for heart disease or something. Respectfully Al, I am sure you are looking for answers as each of us see's ourselves handling each situation. Answers should give you some flavor for the ethical boundaries of each collector. Right or wrong we have only ourselves to live with on this issue. My answers are in BOLD.

Al writes:

"Do you guys try and make your cards look more presentable before sending them in for grading? NO, IF THEIR NOT PRESENTIBLE TO THE STANDARD I"M SUBMITTING FOR PRIOR TO SUBMITTING,I DON"T SUBMIT THEM. Or do you just toss them into a card saver and ship them off? YES.

Do you press a frayed corner back into the card so that it's not flipped up in the slab, or do you leave them frayed? LEAVE AS IS, OR DONT SUBMIT.

Do you wipe fingerprints off the card, or do you leave them there? LEAVE IT ALONE.

Would you flick a little goober off the face of the card with a fingernail, or do you leave the goober? ASSUMPTION IS GOOBER IS AS OLD AS CARD. LEAVE IT OR DONT SUBMIT.

Maybe wipe off a small patch of glue or tobacco, or let it remain on the card? REMAIN ON CARD.

Do you blow dust off the card, or leave it dusty? IF MY CARDS ARE DUSTY, I DONT HAVE TIME FOR CARDS IN THE FIRST PLACE.

If the card has a little fuzz along an edge, do you try and press it back into the edge, so that it's a little less noticeable, or do you leave it? LEAVE IT OR DON'T SUBMIT.



Last year I bought a small lot of T206s, really cheap. They all had scrapbook paper on the backs. One of them had a Tolstoi back - my first. I was bummed that I couldn't see the entire Tolstoi ad, because of the paper. I noticed that the scrapbook paper had flipped up in one corner, so I grabbed it with my finger, and tried lifting it up a little more. Boom - the scrapbook paper came right off the card, with almost no effort at all, revealing a beautiful Tolstoi ad.

Should I have glued the scrapbook paper back onto the card? I"VE NEVER OWNED A SCRAPBOOK SO THIS ONE IS A HYPOTHETICAL. I WOULD LIKELY LOOK TO SELL THE SCRAPBOOK AS IS.

Guys; this is really the way I feel.
Respectfully,
RayB