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Old 06-01-2013, 09:34 AM
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Originally Posted by travrosty View Post
instead of vaccuum sealed holders it could be an inert gas that is inserted under a vaccuum type conditions, rendering it a different color around the border or so forth than if it is cracked open. make it tougher for people to switch cards. they need to make it cost prohibitive to switch cards. if they had a million dollar machine that was needed to do this a certain proprietary way but in a way that could be easily checked by the average collector to make sure it is a psa genuinely sealed holder, then it would be worth it to amortize and pay for the machine or process over the long run because they are slabbing millions of cards, but a counterfeiter would find it too expensive, and that's that.

but lets just keep doing it this way.
You do know that governments fight the same battle against counterfeiters and usually the anti counterfitting measures are duplicated very quickly right?. Some even before the official release of the new notes.

While all the companies could do more, it's a losing battle once there's enough money to be had.

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