The Question of the Day is a way to facilitate community discussion to help members ponder the unanswered questions of the world that are somehow relating to the hobby. Questions are many times open ended and up to interpretation. Feel free to post your thoughts in as much or as little detail as you’d like.
Helpful Considerations may or may not help some people focus their answer, these are blurred to not bother those who have their own ideas.
Helpful Considerations: Is it just for looks? Do you expect someone to get into your home with a baseball bat and swing away? Saying cards are displayable alone is a lie and custom colors elevate it to true art levels? More money than sense? You spend your money on things you think look nice?
I think they’re very silly. I see pictures of cards in a PSA/CGC/BGS holder, in a plastic sleeve, wrapped with a graded guard, in a slab case. Can you even see the card through all that plastic?
And to top it off I’ve seen people wearing gloves while holding it. Dude what do you need gloves for, you could throw that thing out the window and the card will be fine.
Mine are for UV protection and display purposes. I don’t get really any natural sunlight in my office but would like all the UV protection I can get. I only have one right now tho
I use them to protect the slabs I own that cost $400 and up. They just surround the perimeter of the slab and don’t make the slab less nice to look at imo.
I only decided to start using them after a $1000 BGS slab arrived from BGS themselves with a chip in the corner of the slab.
My logic here is that if I’m willing to spend, hundreds or thousands on a single card, then it couldn’t hurt to spend a negligible amount more to protect that purchase.
