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Jimmylikeselaine
Posts: 50
Joined: Apr 2022
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Wednesday, April 6, 2022 8:23 PM | |
Curious if anyone out there besides myself actually removes slabbed cards from the acrylic containers? I personally do not enjoy cards in their cold, lifeless slabs, so I use pliers to bust open the container and extract the card to hold in my grubby paws... Or does everyone just think this is lunacy?
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jimetal7212
Posts: 4,770
Joined: Dec 2016
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Wednesday, April 6, 2022 9:09 PM | |
I break them FREE!!!!!!!!! I've gotten a few slabbed things through the years as part of lots, or just a great deal considering the card instead (i.e. didn't pay a premium). The all got busted open, well, except one from Beckett. I still need to go buy a special tool to punch that beast open.
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Now I'm here and my pain is my companion Now I know it wasn't meant to heal The cut is way too deep No more wasted years of sacrificial bleeding I'm the master of the war inside me
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egveitikkje
Posts: 6
Joined: Feb 2019
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Wednesday, April 6, 2022 9:15 PM | |
When I was assembling a collection for a binder, I cracked open a slab. Unless a card is a high-price, oft-counterfeited showpiece, I find slabs generally off-putting.
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Billy Kingsley
Posts: 7,510
Joined: Aug 2011
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griffey423
Posts: 646
Joined: Jul 2014
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Thursday, April 7, 2022 7:28 AM | |
I've cracked a few and kept a few. For me it depends on the card and the grade. If the grade is high enough and the card valueable enough, I leave it slabbed. If the grade is low and I wonder why anyone ever bothered to get it graded in the first place, I set it free.
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Always looking for baseball variation/error cards and anything Garrett Whitley or Ian Anderson
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vrooomed
Posts: 14,820
Joined: Dec 2012
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Thursday, April 7, 2022 7:41 AM | |
A few years back, I was back-filling my team collection cards as well as a few various sets that I wanted. Several of the team cards were graded and I got at prices that were very good for the cards (graded or not), one of the sets had 3 of the cards graded, and I picked up another one to complete a set that was graded. I watched a video on the best way to free them, and I freed all but 2 of those (one team card because of the card's history and the one set completion card because I was looking to get a "raw" copy and sell this one (this no longer looks like a plan).
All in all, I think I broke out 15-20 cards from slabs. No casualties (cards or myself).
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Gunny
Posts: 1,322
Joined: Jan 2009
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Thursday, April 7, 2022 7:53 AM | |
Nope never done it. My slabbed cards are cards that I wanted slabbed. Slabbed cards that I don't want get sent to COMC. If any collectors want to break a card out of the slab though by all means have at it.
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We all live in a Perry Groves World...
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jayoneill
Posts: 356
Joined: Nov 2012
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Thursday, April 7, 2022 8:01 AM | |
I'm with Gunny. I have only acquired cards that I want slabbed (PSA 10 Jeter/Mattingly/Mantle). Not sure what I'd do with a slabbed card if it was needed in my collection. Maybe I'd open it.Maybe I wouldn't. Depends on where it fit in my collection. Everybody has a different favorite color.
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C2Cigars
Posts: 11,335
Joined: Oct 2014
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Thursday, April 7, 2022 8:31 AM | |
I've purchased a few slabbed cards only because they were a great price for the card, regardless of being graded. I planned on taking my graded cards to my LCS and swapping for unslabbed versions. But my LCS wouldn't do it. They didn't want graded because they don't sell. So I bust them out so I can put them in my binders.
Some, especially the older ones, are very easy to pop open with no damage to the slab.
A knife blade in the seam... twist, pry, pop!
And you have a reusable slab.
So you might want to think twice about buying graded in older slabs on ebay.
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Someday my cards may double in value and then be worth half of what I paid for them.
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DocOso
Posts: 107
Joined: Dec 2016
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Thursday, April 7, 2022 8:57 AM | |
Beckett are the toughest to crack, followed by PSA, then SGC. I've used a vice grip to hold them and Dremel tool to saw the edge. Then a flat screwdriver to pop it open. I've tossed well over 50 PSA flips. Apparently they want you to return the flips so they can adjust their population reports. But since I consider population reports to be bogus and flawed statistics as well as an illegitimate way to gage scarcity, then I couldn't care less about them.
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