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Originally Posted by Eric72
Fake cards in genuine holders (the TPG graded a fake)
...or...
Cards in fake holders (someone manufactured a counterfeit slab)?
EDITED to add: I'm asking the group, not just the anonymous user who apparently spotted some flooding.
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I think we've seen some cards in counterfeit slabs. Probably not enough to constitute flooding. But it's certainly not zero.
I thought I heard somewhere that some goons were running around with their own supply of slabs and a machine for making it happen.
From what I've seen, the cards they snuck into those slabs, when closely inspected, suggested that there was clearly a problem. Cards that should grade at maybe a 5, but were in a 9 slab, etc. Before one of the TPG haters suggests that even the genuine ones experience this overgrading phenomenon, my experience is that such an extreme outcome is a real outlier.