Opinions on Soaking/Pressing

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Posted By: Daniel Bretta

Who makes the rules in card collecting? Are the grading companies setting the rules of what is acceptable and what is not? If PSA figures out how to detect soaked cards and says they won't encapsulate them even if it's only detectable with a mass spectrometer does that make that card less desirable than a PSA 1? I know that people can collect however and whatever they want, but I find it absurd that people find it wrong to remove scrapbook residue and glue from a card if it's indetectable. To each their own though, but those folks paying $6,000 for a PSA 8 T206 common are fooling themselves to believe every PSA 8 or 9 has never been soaked.