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Badger

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    I'll ignore your previous diatribe since I think previous experience has left you frustrated and not really angry at me. Besides, as I stated previously , I agree, a label that shows the grade with the restoration as well as one that estimates what the grade was before restoration would be great! If you were the first to suggest it then you are a genius, Roy! A villainous genius but a genius none the less!
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    I've always wondered why they don't do something like this.They could even hedge their language by using Estimated Original Integrity Grade or some such. Then people could look at a PLOD and know that the 9.4 they are looking at used to be a 1.5 before leaf casting or the 8.5 used to be a 7.5 before color touch. I think this would help a lot on pricing uncommon books. Silver and later are too common for this notation to be a huge help. I think the people who are willing to buy a color touched Silver book do so because the cost savings is so drastic. Level that out and you might find the market for color touch shrinking with prices returning close to the same level.
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    I would actually.
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    You are right; things do change. I was, and am, a strong supporter of the change on tape use as well as condemning the use of moving spine damage to the back cover using the same techniques used to remove spine roll. Both of these examples allowed people to game the CGC grading system for potential out-sized profits. If someone started a thread advocating either of these techniques for blue label treatment I believe the majority of board users would say, "Ridiculous!" In my eyes, this discussion is no different. Its talking about gaming the CGC grading system to increase profits by applying a largely unaccepted treatment. Harumph, I say!
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    exactly and not an issue for me. The color touch does not impact the grade so...it should be noted but it is not restoration by definition.
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    I have been told that the amount of color touch allowed for this to still receive a blue label is so small that its application did not affect the grade. That is not what we are talking about. We are talking about color touch getting a blue label almost regardless the amount. Ridiculous.
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    Vulture to Roc
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    Exactly right. If CGC was foolish enough to allow color touch, routinely, into a blue label, the use of color touch would sky rocket. Why wouldn't you, excepting any ethics you might possess, place a dot or two on your comic's spine to have CGC's blessing and make 30% more? This is a crazy discussion and it makes me cry for the future of our hobby.
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    Men preparing for battle to man preparing to make a mess
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    Wow, I cannot imagine there are many of them left with that still attached. Even a warehouse find would have to be the exact version with the BBs. Pretty cool!
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    Bug-eyed alien crustacean to Terran bug-eyed crustacean
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    Perils of Bucky to Perils of Bucky!
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    No 1 to No 2
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    Was the tec' 27 trimmed? The Wagner that Mastro admitted to trimming seemed to go against the accepted common knowledge that trimming kills the price. True, it didn't hit the estimated value in this auction but it still sold for far more than Gretzky paid for it. Where is the the Mastro tec 27? Does anyone know? https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidseideman/2016/09/22/a-heinous-crime-may-be-lifting-a-1-8-million-honus-wagner-card-now-up-for-auction/#5da05f187854
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    Fanning the heat to spewing the flames!
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    That was a very interesting article. Thanks for posting!
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    Elves to Dwarves
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    Japanese shipyard to Japanese Shipyard
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    Red to Red
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    1 friend to many friends
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    $10 at Oafcon 2018 Since eBay is just a big, usually overpriced, comic convention I'll include this which was less than $10 and was actually free by using eBay bucks!
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    "Baby got Back" to Back Against the Wall
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    Lost Red Wager to Red Lobster
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    Redhead to Blonde