I’ve had similar experiences. I think the frustration stems from my unrealistic expectation that I am buying from someone like me...an adult, professional, responsible. In reality it’s probably a 13 year old kid trying to make a quick buck, with minimal social skills (or sentence structure...
I doubt they were trimmed. In all likelihood, those cards came from a factory set. Factory set Donruss cards from 1984 have been known to have some minimum size issues.
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