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Originally Posted by Volod
Right, that is the method I used a few years ago after reading about it here. I carefully placed the pliers on one corner of the slab and pressed, but quickly realized that the plastic just was not giving. Don't recall what brand of slab it was, though. I dug out a larger pair of pliers and really bore down on the corner until it finally broke, but at that point a large jagged crack had run across the slab and dug into the face of the card. I was then pretty exasperated and thought I had been misled about the "simplicity" of the whole thing.  |
Yeah sometimes (and both with PSA and SGC) if the plastic shatters and produces shards, those can go into the cardboard and ruin things pretty quickly. It's happened to me a few times. And there isn't much you can do.
I don't pop slabs anymore unless I have a good reason - if it's just really old or scratched up, or I don't like the way the card moves within the slab - I will still occasionally bust them, but for the most part anymore I just view a slab as a holder. If a card gets to me in a slab, it usually stays there. If not, that's fine too.