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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2010019, member: 112&quot;]Yeah, it&#039;s an unknown. But I can tell you this. I&#039;ve been collecting coins since before the first plastic flip was sold and I never once had one be a problem. But then I never used one for long term storage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that is not to say that the PVC flips do not cause problems, they absolutely do. But time is the issue. I don&#039;t know for sure, and I don&#039;t think anybody else does either, but I suspect that it takes a couple of years before the softening agents begin breaking down. And no business that has inventory sit on their shelf for a couple of years is going to stay in business.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem with the PVC flips was the collectors who chose to use them for long term storage. Buy a coin in one and just leave it there for several years or even decades. Dealers don&#039;t keep coins in their inventory for several years, one way or another they sell them, at a loss if they have to just to get rid of them. So it was not the dealers keeping the coins in the soft flips, it was the collectors. But then in the beginning they just didn&#039;t know what would happen.</p><p><br /></p><p>You have to remember, prior to 1995, and really 1998, the internet didn&#039;t exist, not like we know it today. So people didn&#039;t find out about things for years, sometimes many years. Before the internet they either had to read it in a magazine, a book, or hear it from somebody face to face. And just like today, just because somebody says something, few people ever believe it. They will swear with their dying breath that it isn&#039;t so because they haven&#039;t seen it or experienced it themselves. So even though they were told, they chose not to believe it, until it was too late and they found out the hard way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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