The Goodwin Plank and Magie are TRIMMED!

[frankbmd]

If I was going to start a packaging company and knew that 0% of the population would want my product, then I would go broke.

If I was going to start a packaging company and knew that 100% of the population would want my product, then I would package each item once.

But if I was going to start a packaging company and knew that 50% of the population would want my product and 50% wouldn't want it, and if I knew there was a resale market for what I was packaging, and if I made the packaging in such a way that it could be removed so that I could repackage the same item time and time again, I would be far better off in the long run.

Just a thought hopefully not too far off topic.

[jerrys]

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[FrankWakefield]

Travis, that is a great Cobb holder!!! I wonder what it'll book for in 5 years.

Scott, Nice Matty. He'll fit much better in a 15 pocket sheet that way.

[slidekellyslide]

I do not collect graded cards and don't even pay much attention to that side of the hobby, but can someone show me another card with a bottom edge like that with half rounded corners that did not get an Authentic grade?

[steve B]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

I do not collect graded cards and don't even pay much attention to that side of the hobby, but can someone show me another card with a bottom edge like that with half rounded corners that did not get an Authentic grade?

I have a few, none in TPG holders I'm pretty sure, but I'm very confident all of them would grade if I bothered. This Phelps has a lower right corner that's similar. The diamond cut makes it look like less of a sharp transition from edge to corner than it actually is. And I'm positive it's not trimmed.


It's not in a holder because well, it's obviously a solid G grade. And a holder won't change that or make it clearer to someone.

I'd want to see the Plank in hand before I'd be willing to committ to trimmed/not trimmed. I do however have a problem with the Plank getting a 70. Based on the grades the cards I've sent in have recieved. I think 50, maybe 60 on a good day.

The Cobb - I had a bit of a look just now at the scan, and using my less than totally scientific method (Holding a straightedge up to the flat monitor) That top left corner isn't anywhere near as bad as it looks. While it looks truly awful the difference between the corner and the rest of the top edge is only a pixel or two. So call that another one I'd have to have in hand to feel sure calling it a mistake.

I wish I had the money for either of them.

Steve Birmingham