Post by Ditch Fahrenheit on Aug 19, 2017 7:45:07 GMT -8
CBCS link
Yes, they are.
I have mixed feelings about posting these pictures up. I have no interest in creating doubt about ANY professional third party grading and encapsulation company's product. Not their grading, not their slabs nor their integrity. When it comes to comic books, I'm Switzerland. As some of you know, I clean and press comics as a retail service. I send my clients books where ever they want. Something the poster of the case swap video on YouTube can't say. I send my own books to both CBCS and CGC. When I choose between the two, the choice has NOTHING to do with the slabs. Because the slabs are all more or less equivalent. Different choices were made and different attributes were favored by one design or the other.
But NONE are absolutely tamper proof. NONE. You want tamper proof? Two stainless steel sheets welded together. Too bad you won't be able to SEE the book inside. But hey - ain't no one tampering with it! Obviously that isn't the answer. We want the slabs to also display our books. We want them to be safe to open if we want them out. We want them to be archival - preserving the book inside And yes, we want some level of tamper resistance/evidence from our slabs. But there may never be a perfect slab that does all those things perfectly. Perfect isn't necessary to the hobby and perfect shouldn't be allowed to be the enemy of good. Tampering is a potential threat to all slabbed comics. But not a common or likely threat.
I also WILL NOT post up pictures showing HOW this is done. It's done with a couple common...things... you probably have in your house. The aspect of the case swap video I take the greatest exception with is the author showed HOW. Who possibly benefits from such knowledge? Would be thieves and scammers. No matter how much fuss, I will not show the tools or describe how it is done. The only information along those lines I will offer is you only "work" on the area around the label. Not pulling apart the entire slab. CGC doesn't encapsulate the label inside the inner holder.
But it can be done. Easily done. Couple of minutes tops.
See below...
I have mixed feelings about posting these pictures up. I have no interest in creating doubt about ANY professional third party grading and encapsulation company's product. Not their grading, not their slabs nor their integrity. When it comes to comic books, I'm Switzerland. As some of you know, I clean and press comics as a retail service. I send my clients books where ever they want. Something the poster of the case swap video on YouTube can't say. I send my own books to both CBCS and CGC. When I choose between the two, the choice has NOTHING to do with the slabs. Because the slabs are all more or less equivalent. Different choices were made and different attributes were favored by one design or the other.
But NONE are absolutely tamper proof. NONE. You want tamper proof? Two stainless steel sheets welded together. Too bad you won't be able to SEE the book inside. But hey - ain't no one tampering with it! Obviously that isn't the answer. We want the slabs to also display our books. We want them to be safe to open if we want them out. We want them to be archival - preserving the book inside And yes, we want some level of tamper resistance/evidence from our slabs. But there may never be a perfect slab that does all those things perfectly. Perfect isn't necessary to the hobby and perfect shouldn't be allowed to be the enemy of good. Tampering is a potential threat to all slabbed comics. But not a common or likely threat.
I also WILL NOT post up pictures showing HOW this is done. It's done with a couple common...things... you probably have in your house. The aspect of the case swap video I take the greatest exception with is the author showed HOW. Who possibly benefits from such knowledge? Would be thieves and scammers. No matter how much fuss, I will not show the tools or describe how it is done. The only information along those lines I will offer is you only "work" on the area around the label. Not pulling apart the entire slab. CGC doesn't encapsulate the label inside the inner holder.
But it can be done. Easily done. Couple of minutes tops.
See below...