At least with Beckett you can be sure that the card in the slab is actually the card that they graded. I have no doubt that many of the overgraded/fake cards that people post from PSA and SGC have been inserted into compromised slabs after the fact. Beckett slabs are huge, ungainly, hard to scan etc... but at least they are secure and actually protect the card. PSA slabs in particular are far from secure and often allow the card to "float" inside the slab. It's also been shown that the "frosting" from a cracked case can be buffed out and cleaned up with chemicals, so it's hard to spot those fakes in real slabs. I don't like the apparent conflict of interest, but I feel that sometimes Beckett doesn't get credit for the things they do better than the others.
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