As to the hedging verbiage I used:
My original post here describing the listing, based on memory, was not correct. I was not emphatic in the description, saying it “ was” color touched and married. I was also just paraphrasing.
Does a line of red marker over a black area always count as color touch, if it obviously does not attempt to match the color it’s on top of? I am not sure that CGG consistently treats that type of thing as restoration.
Do you guys have your own personal, 100% surefire way of detecting married pages? The national dealer I bought the book from made no notation of it being married. Should I out them here? (No, I won’t).
Whether or not you agree with my “potential” and “possible” descriptions, any buyer feeling confident the book would be unrestored based on the description is delusional. I did not say it was unrestored, and definitely described the reasons I thought it might be restored and qualified ( and if a long-time collector, as the buyer was, does not know that color touch is restoration, then they should quit the hobby) Before it was sent to CGC the buyer could have/ should have made their own assessment.
I typically always take returns no questions asked. It’s only because I knew the description I wrote in this case, and the buyer’s insistence I never mentioned any restoration, that I considered any differently.