It's Time To Crack Out Your Graded Cards

[todeen]

Originally Posted by jingram058

I do not have any slabs, but hey, I don't have a 1952 Topps Mantle or a T206 Wagner, either.

I personally dislike slabs - although my best cards are slabbed. To me, TPG seems like Communism: the idea sounds great if everyone honors the system; but when put into practice there are too many individuals with bad intentions for it to work. There needs to be more safeguards and oversight, which is currently lacking, in order to protect the consumer. Of course, no one wants oversight, but without it the scammers have no reason to quit.

[Exhibitman]

Slabbed cards are like pretty flowers that smell bad.

[nat]

From the article: "The good news is that while heat is damaging, cold conditions are not, so if in doubt store in a cool, dark place."

Okay - baseball cards, you're going in the refrigerator. I'll find some other place for the yogurt.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by nat

From the article: "The good news is that while heat is damaging, cold conditions are not, so if in doubt store in a cool, dark place."

Okay - baseball cards, you're going in the refrigerator. I'll find some other place for the yogurt.

Do it during a stretch of low humidity to avoid condensation inside the slab

[SAllen2556]

Originally Posted by todeen

I personally dislike slabs - although my best cards are slabbed. To me, TPG seems like Communism: the idea sounds great if everyone honors the system; but when put into practice there are too many individuals with bad intentions for it to work. There needs to be more safeguards and oversight, which is currently lacking, in order to protect the consumer. Of course, no one wants oversight, but without it the scammers have no reason to quit.

Wow. You really think Communism could work if people just honored the system? The "system" denies individual liberty - it's not people's bad intentions that cause it to fail. It's people's desire for freedom that causes it to fail.

As for the topic: I hate slabs as well, but they're a necessary evil.

[todeen]

Originally Posted by SAllen2556

Wow. You really think Communism could work if people just honored the system? The "system" denies individual liberty - it's not people's bad intentions that cause it to fail. It's people's desire for freedom that causes it to fail.

As for the topic: I hate slabs as well, but they're a necessary evil.

No, I don't think Communism would ever work. But it's the idea of a utopia which is supposed to be a good thing. But like all other utopias, they fail because someone's pleasure is another's pain. The symbolism vs. reality holds true for TPG. They are supposed to be the utopian place where problems in condition are sorted out by knowledgeable independent graders....but in reality they have become more of a dystopia since A) they aren't as knowledgeable as we hoped and B) they are no longer independent and C) they aren't sorting out the problems the promised to resolve. And like most fictional dystopian scripts, we have found it very very hard to exit this story due to perceptions of its necessity.