QotD: When you crack a slab or crossgrade, do you inform the original company?

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QotD: When you crack a slab or crossgrade, do you inform the original company?

Helpful Considerations: You enjoy helping keep accurate pops? Only at certain thresholds? Screw grading companies? Only when you die will we find your necklace of labels like the spoils of a gruesome tribal war?

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Excellent question! :thinking: I guess I’ll find out when I get my first batch of 10-worthy increasedfocusTM 7’s in return.

I suspect the approach will be something along this line.

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Unless if it’s a high rarity card/niche that the data is important on because pop is not very high like a pop> 50 card that’s not bulk, I’m cracking it and moving on with my life

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No, I’ve never sent in my cracked labels. If PSA offered a portal to submit them, I would do it.

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I’d definitely get hit with that irrational paranoia — like, if I crack a low pop, send in the label and resubmit, PSA’s got some hidden tech that’s like: ‘Nice try, buddy, we know this card’s been here before’ — and boom, auto downgrade

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I’ve only cracked a slab once and it was a niche low grade ace grading one, didn’t send anything anywhere but i doubt no one will ever see the pop report anyway

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I’ve only ever cracked one graded card, which was a PSA-9 Japanese unlimited edition Pokémon Web Moltres (I already owned a PSA-10 copy, and couldn’t find it raw at the time).

I did email PSA a photo of the cracked case with label, but they only accept it if you physical send the label. Considering internal shipping is a couple bucks, it wasn’t worth it for me. :person_shrugging: :sweat_smile:

Not sure if I still have that label somewhere :thinking: , but here is an old picture of it, and it’s still in the pop report. :person_shrugging:

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Greetz,
Quuador

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No. I didn’t even know you could do this. I still won’t bother.

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I floss every day

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Nah, I’ve cracked >100 7s and 8s for binders and the labels go in the trash with the slabs.

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I completely agree with @Dyl - if they made it easier to report the removal of a cert I would absolutely do it, but it’s not worth the time to me as it stands currently.

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I had this in an unpopular opinions draft:

“Good samaritans send back their cracked slab labels”

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No, mainly because I’m not paying money out of my pocket to help them with their registry (you have to mail in the label for them to deactivate it).

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Nah, too much effort. Pop report is redundant in this manner with the exception of rare cards imo.

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I don’t think the community cares too much about my cracked PSA 6/7’s impacting the pop reports.

Unless it’s a 10 or a rare card, how much do people care about the pop reports?

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I usually crack to get the raw cards and just stick the label behind the card in the binder

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I mostly crack for binders and keep the label for reference. I never cracked often, but when I did, I used to send the labels back to PSA. That feels like a lifetime ago. I doubt many people do that anymore.

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I crack the card and take a picture for myself then move along.

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This is what I do too.

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