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CGC slabs opened and tampered with?
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Hi guys. I bought a couple of slabs from someone on eBay but I'm worried now that they have been tampered with.

I was looking at them and they look less than their grade seems to indicate.

By applying a little pressure, I can open the slab with my fingers by 1/4 of an inch in the middle part !

Also the labels look cheap and are wavy (not flat) but that was maybe like that back in the day ?

Maybe I'm just not used to the old slabs, but I don't think the middle part should be like that (see keys in pics) !

What do you think ? Please help ! Thanks

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2 minutes ago, RockMyAmadeus said:

Gah! Get your keys out of there! You're gonna scratch the inner well!

Your slabs are perfectly normal. That's how they came prior to the 2016 change.

Thanks RockMyAmadeus. The keys are long gone. I was careful LOL.

So I'm relieved to hear that these slabs are normal.

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2 minutes ago, RockMyAmadeus said:

Yes, perfectly normal for that generation slab. What you have to watch out for are the posts. And, of course, check the books carefully, and make sure the appearance matches the grade given.

Nice looking books.

What are posts ? :)

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11 hours ago, RockMyAmadeus said:

check the books carefully, and make sure the appearance matches the grade given.

 

Good luck with that....,:p

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17 hours ago, migmtl76 said:

Hi guys. I bought a couple of slabs from someone on eBay but I'm worried now that they have been tampered with.

I was looking at them and they look less than their grade seems to indicate.

By applying a little pressure, I can open the slab with my fingers by 1/4 of an inch in the middle part !

Also the labels look cheap and are wavy (not flat) but that was maybe like that back in the day ?

Maybe I'm just not used to the old slabs, but I don't think the middle part should be like that (see keys in pics) !

What do you think ? Please help ! Thanks

 

I had to bold your sentence and point something out.

If you're buying a CGC graded book.  You are simply paying for a book with CGC's opinion.  They are by no means the "be all" experts of grading and it will likely not be the last time you disagree with the grading whether its points higher or lower.

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