Card Trimming Exploits And The Fake Pokemon Card Price

Card trimming is a highly deceptive illegal practice used to artificially inflate the pokemon card price. Fraudsters take a card with rough, damaged edges and meticulously shave micromillimeters off the borders using razor blades or sandpaper. This makes the card appear perfectly centered and pristine, tricking grading companies into assigning it a gem-mint grade. A trimmed card holds a completely fake pokemon card price. Tutorials on how to trim cards without getting caught are disturbingly common on underground forums, undermining the integrity of the entire vintage card market through this alteration exploit.