Go back to one of the trimming threads...there were a few who didn't mind owning trimmed comics...
Jim
Maybe there's somebody who doesn't mind a owning trimmed book if they pay a "restored" price for it. But show me one person who would be happy with a trimmed book if they paid the "non-restored" price for it.
If it can't be detected then ignorance is bliss...
People certainly would not want a trimmed comic, or pressed for that matter if they feel as I do, but if the idea that we can't be certain that trimming is caught even 90% of the time, is perpetuated throughout the hobby then I fear it will become like pressing has...an acceptable threat when buying slabs. What I don't know won't hurt me kind of thing...
Jim
Pressing is not an acceptable threat. To only a few is it a threat at all. Pressing is an acceptable practice. In fact, most people with any sort of intellect have made an educated decision for themselves how they feel about pressed books. Most have the capablity to determine the expansive difference between pressing and trimming.
Sure pressing has probably become rampant because of the large potential to make money, but it was definitely not accepted because of a "what I don't know can't hurt me" attitude. To assume that even the most evil, money hungry pressers would accept trimming is ridiculous. More so, to assume that collectors of any age, or grade, of books would accept it for any reason other than to obtain a normally monetarilly out of reach key is absurd.
Again, most people have the brain capacity to assign a quantitative degree acceptance to different practices of "manipulation", and pressing hasn't received the stigmata that some wish it would. Trimming has and always will have a high degree of dislike.
Yes this is off topic, but this assumption that people will just blow off trimming as acceptable in any way at all is ridiculous. I also feel as though it is a lame attempt to go back to the "pressing is only acceptable because of money" argument.
