Well, as a followup to another post yesterday where I was very happy with a graded card return, today is where I report that I cracked the key card in that return because SGC sent me back a faulty gasket in the slab with shards of plastic sticking out and touching the card. Unfortunately - at least for the foreseeable future - they've lost me as a customer. Actually, this may be a turning point of sorts for me in terms of what is really important in this hobby.

As was said at the start of this thread, "F slabs." Yep. That is certainly the mindset I find myself in this morning.

Got this one in the mail today and freed it from its prison within minutes.:D

Thank you, Andy!

I bought some 3 ring binder folders and cut them up by hand to make the dividers. It's these: https://www.amazon.com/Resistente-pl...dp/B00JPNPLOI/

My latest liberation. This was an older PSA slab, which had some of those tiny phantom plastic pieces sealed up with it, and they looked particularly crappy against that ‘71 black. I’ve never understood why PSA can’t QC some of that type stuff better.

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You are a courageous man. Of all the cards ever produced, 1971s are the ones that need to be housed untouched in protective plastic bunkers. If you even look at them wrong way, their edges begin turning white.