Fraudulent card restoration for grading: a dangerous trend growing fast

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Wanted to share these threads.

QotD: What are your thoughts on “restoring” pokemon cards?

Welcome to the next Question of the Day! The Question of the Day is a way to facilitate community discussion to help members ponder the unanswered questions of the world that are somehow relating to the hobby. Questions are many times open ended and up to interpretation. Feel free to post your thoughts in as much or as little detail as you’d like. Helpful Considerations may or may not help some people focus their answer, these are blurred to not bother those who have their own ideas. QotD Arc…

Card Cleaning & Altering Cards: What constitutes an altered card?

PSA defines an altered card as such: Trimmed edges/corners (N1) Restored paper stock (N2) - e.g., building ripped corners back up Recoloring or adding/subtracting ink (N3) Altered paper stock (N5) - e.g., crease/wrinkle pressing, scratch removal, enhanced gloss, foreign substances are applied Cleaning (N7) - e.g., use of whitener, sprays, waxes, or solutions to clean the card surface https://www.psacard.com/gradingstandards# Kurt’s Card Care has made a huge brand on sports and TCG card clean…

Thoughts on cleaning cards?

Saw this on instagram. Thoughts on cleaning cards? Do you consider this altering a card? Share your your opinion [IMG_0562] [IMG_0563] [IMG_0564] [IMG_0565]

Recent Card Altering

There recently has been some services that ‘clean’ your cards and will somehow ‘remove’ surface wear, mainly by getting rid of holo scratches. My only guess is they use some type of liquid/paste/whatever that fills in the micro grooves of the holo scratches thus altering the card. I was surprised to not find a thread on efour as I saw this on reddit weeks ago because it’s been very concerning to me not being able to detect these altered cards when buying online. I was curious if you guys know o…