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Originally Posted by GOATcards
so that's 3 elephants in the room then, the fact that it's MJ's rookie card, the fact that it has disappointing eye appeal (close-up image of MJ's smudged-up mouth area; the cropping), and the fact that its cut size varies so on the face it's trimmer-bait. Yay 101
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Almost all of the 101's are cut short from the factory. Less then 10% are full size. They are short from top to bottom but are the same from left to right. Left to right is were this card struggles and has issues with centering so trimming a full size 101 isn't going to do you much good unless there's a huge dinged top corner or something to that effect. Personally the last thing I would do to a full size 101 is trim it because you would be turning a rare full size card into a more common short 101.
As you can see from the thousands of pages of trimmed cards on these boards ANY card is trimmer bait so that doesn't make the 101 special. In fact I would say the 101 is less susceptible to trimming then other cards because most are already short to being with and going any shorter would most likely get caught. Also the 101 is distinctly diamond cut from left to right so trimming it left to right would be more evident compared to other cards. It also has a slight red bleed on the back that would be cut off if one of the edges were trimmed. With that said are there trimmed 101's that have been mistakenly graded? I would bet on it. I would also bet on it that there are far larger percentage of trimmed and slabbed 86 fleer Jordans relative to their populations.
As far as eye appeal, would I have liked them to use a nice action shot of him dunking like the Court Kings card instead? Of coarse but to me it's his rookie card and that's all that matters. It's his only NBA licensed card, not from a subset or promo, that came out during his rookie year and if the image they used was him taking a dump at center court then I would still think it's a very important card to the hobby and a must have for any serious Basketball collector.