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Originally Posted by midmo
To me personally it actually lowers the value. I would rather purchase an ungraded $50 set than graded because of the time it takes to crack them out (don't have the space nor desire to store tons of low value graded cards). I spent a couple hours last week releasing some 1953 Topps so I could put them in my binder and it's kind of a pain in the arse. Just keep in mind that you could have a really nice $800 card instead of a $50 set.
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Same here...
Even though it's relatively easy to crack them out, I am still nervous every time I do it. Much prefer buying them raw to begin with. But inevitably, sometimes the card you want resides in one of those ugly god-awful and randomly numbered bar-coded slabs.