Buy the coin, not the slab

Oh yeah, they are quite serious about video game slabbing. Don't you know that if you open the box to play the game, you may be creating tears on the cardboard box, thus lowering the value of your investment. Not to mention that playing the game itself caused the risk of hairline scratches on the disk, or microscratches on the plastic case that holds the disk. Why would you want to actually play a game and risk causing massive loss to your investment's value and upside potential for future profit? Slab the game!

They even slab dolls, action figures, casino chips, and pretty much anything else that can be slabbed these days. It's the way every hobby seems to be heading. Some "experts" grading your item and encasing it, and then it becomes all about the preservation, commodity value, profit, etc.

 

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Saw this on one of my comic book sites this morning, a video of Rick Springfields large as$ collection of old Star Wars figure.

Rick Springfields is mainly known for the 80's hit, "Jessie's Girl".

You can see he has them all in hard plastic, but these don't look graded.



But I see graded figures/comics/trading cards at cons all the time.

 

100% => it's a bit like Granny putting plastic on the couches!!

 

Okay fine => ummm, maybe I'm a total hypocrite, right? (hey wait, is a hypocrite an animal?)

=> yah, because I'm totally fine with slabbing old sports cards (*whatev*) ... fricken judgers





... collecting "rocks"

=> but we are what we are, right? (nuthin' but creepy, obsessive collectors!!)

 

I think slabbed cards are OK and as a comic book collector, I don't mind it to a extent either. I think they are great for very rare/expensive comic books and even key issues. Comics have their "tooling" like flattening the spine I think with an iron, adding new staples, page repairs. So it's good to know.

But like coin slabs, people have very new modern comic books slabbed and hope to get 9.7 & 9.8 grades and turn a weeks old $4 comic to $200 comic because of that 9.7 or 9.8.

And people on ebay buy them so they keep doing it.

NGC does the comic books under CGC.

 

=> okay, thanks Mat ... a bit of a double-standard, but I would certainly crack-open my sports cards before I slabbed my ancinets ... I'm just sayin'

=> oh, and again => it's really up to you in the end how ya do it, right?

cheers

 

So, let's see. You are a clear plastic protective cover?

 

Just for ducks, here's the only once-slabbed coin I ever bought. As I said somewhere way upthread, it was freed within an hour, even though I was in NY and had to track down a friend with tools. Sorry, I don't have a before pic, lol:

 

I have some rocks/fossils that I have collected over the years.

Should slab them, never know when a hammer might fall from the sky and land on them

 

exactly, my friend => I'm your friendly neighborhood Plexiglass Man!!

 

slabbing is ok for higher valued coins intended for trading. If nothing else, it's a good packaging for all the sorting and handling. The authentication by expert can be worth the cost if enough was at stake. I mean, we often pay a lot more auction fee than that.

 

That's a nice coin, Phil. I remember last year, perhaps the year before, a whack, whack, whack echoing through the NY bourse only to find out it was Harlan shattering slabs at the HJB table.

 

Warms my soul to hear such stories. Especially at holiday time.

Do I hear a bell ringing somewhere?



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Lol!