Every slabbed card has a story, don't it?

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by Snowman

I disagree regarding the devaluation of said cards. The market has clearly shown that it doesn't give two clucks about what cert numbers have been outed by BODA or which cards make it onto that completely unusable Tiffany Cards database. As long as the cert is still valid, the cards can be bought and sold pretty much anywhere at full market pricing. People who say otherwise are not looking at the data, but rather are projecting based on that which they wish to be true. Rightly or wrongly, it is what it is.

True. During the height of slabgate 3 years ago or whenever, PWCC contacted some owners of "suspect" PSA graded cards (how they arrived at that determination was not disclosed) to buy them back, ostensibly on the possibility that the FBI or whoever was working with them would need them for evidence. More than a year later, some of those collectors were contacted again by PWCC with matter-of-factly offers to sell them their cards back. No explanation, no, nothing to see - nothing funny going on here...

One would think if the market now considers these suspect slabs taboo, that either PSA would have invalidated the certs, or at a minimum an outfit like PWCC would have taken them out of circulation. But of course none of that happened. They were all just returned to circulation when slabgate became much ado about nothing.