Question About Professional Grading

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Posted By: Fred C

Paul,

That's a pretty good question. Unfortunately, the company that graded this card usually doesn't accept responsibility for the errors that they make. Sure, people are going to say that the grading company will miss one here or there but this isn't just ANY card. It's a frigging Lajoie Goudey. I'd have hoped that they'd treat this card with a little more attention. Spend two minutes looking over the card, not 30 seconds. The following is part of the Mastro item description. Yes, they did the right thing in disclosing the flaw. Hopefully, anyone that would have bid on the card would have looked it over carefully instead of blindly bidding on the card.


All aspects of its print are legible (excepting a small number of single characters interrupted by a small area of surface paper loss and accompanied by a raised, rubber-band blemish on the reverse), and the card's eye appeal is quite favorable.

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