PSA MK Qualifier Question

JimMeant

If a card has a small area on the reverse side where it appears that somebody tried to write on the card...however, it is clear that there is no ink or pencil lead on the surface. Would PSA automatically give this card a MK qualifier?

wrestlingcardking

I would think so...for example you can erase the lead from a pencil mark on a card but the indentation would be there and the card would justifiably have a MK designation.

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Dboneesq

Took down my response after reading the one below. Don't want to give any bad info.

miwlvrn

<< <i>I would think so...for example you can erase the lead from a pencil mark on a card but the indentation would be there and the card would justifiably have a MK designation.

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Careful with that one there. I'm not sure whether it is company-wide policy or discretion on per-grader basis, but I have had old vintage pre-war items where I carefully erased some pencil writing just hoping to reduce the visual appeal, not expecting to conceal former writing ever existed but still expecting an MK qualifier, where those items have been returned not graded w/ altered as the reason. This has happened to me on more than one occasion in the past, not with the same item(s) each time, so I'm confident in those cases it was due to the erasing and not some additional alteration I missed. It has been a while since then, but ever since, I leave the pencil marks on even though I hate to look at them and it is tough to fight the urge to erase.

I don't know if re-subbing a few times would eventually get grades but since altered is not one of the return no-charge designations, it isn't worth it to me to pay continuous grading fees for no grade.