Card Improvment: Ethical? Yes or NO?

[barrysloate]

There are several reasons why cards get a low grade. Some have heavily rounded corners and layering. Those probably can't be improved and will remain as low grade cards.

Others have the appearance of Excellent or better, but they get hammered because of a light crease. Those will disappear from the marketplace. In time, every one of them will be processed to receive a higher grade.

I know this has already been done for a long time but a product like this, if aggressively marketed, will speed up the process of card alteration.

[V117collector]

The easiest way to finding out if using a “card doctor” is ethical or not is to ask board members if they’ve ever paid for an “alteration”. If there's no real replies to this simply question, we have an answer, not ethical (if not disclosing).


Obviously there are degrees when discussing alterations and/or repairs. The question should be which procedure/s would be consider by most collectors an ethical improvement?


eg: soaking cards for paper removal (distilled water)