Yep, you hit the nail on the head there. I’d love to see anyone selling a card cleaning service try to counter that in any way that doesn’t make them seem like a con-man.
Yeah, makes a lot of sense.
Because the people involved in cleaning arent doing it as a hobby in the first place. Theres no pride in this, its purely to trick graders and buyers.
I wouldnt call that a hobby
I can’t really say anything against that. I really think that card restoring could be something other than this though, but for now it looks like it’s gonna be a shady practice.
Looks like someone hasn’t spent a relaxing hour polishing their slabs with plastx
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I’ve been laughing at this sentence for 5 straight minutes. Exceedingly well put!
Don’t want my cards to be kurted, and without testicle oils and nasal cavity oils.
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quite possibly the best analogy ive ever seen. Will be using this
You need to be given a special badge for this. Absolute gold!! Best moment of my day so far
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All we need now is 1stedsniper (the Bulbasuar reprint guy) to join this thread
For some reason, every time I see Kurt’s name mentioned I can’t help but think that Kurt, the Apricorn Ball smith from the Gen 2 games, has joined Team Rocket and is the one deceiving everyone. He will now alter your cards if you give him a Slowpoke Tail.
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I offer resealing kits and services, what’s the big deal? My packs pass PSA 9 times out of 10.
Poke Master Center blocked me on Instagram after I called him out in the comments. You’d think that card ”cleaners”(alterers) who have good intentions would embrace calls for transparency rather than blocking people and hiding certs.
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I don’t see how there’s any debate about this - “polishing/cleaning” cards is clearly fraud.
You’re taking a card in X condition and applying foreign substances to make it appear as if it’s in Y condition in an effort to deceive grading companies and buyers.
That’s pretty textbook fraud - altering something to deceive others for monetary gain.
I agree that it would be fine / not fraud if it was known and documented. The deception part of the equation is what’s important here.
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