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<blockquote data-quote="Snaketibe" data-source="post: 490498" data-attributes="member: 7379"><p>I'm no fan of grading, but one thing you can at least usually say for graded items is that you can actually see the item inside its perspex prison. Sealed cardboard cases of vintage items always puzzle me anyway, when their owners don't open them. I'm not suggesting they should open the items they remove from the brown cardboard boxes, of course, but come on! Keeping beautiful vintage items sealed inside a boring plain cardboard mailing box where you can't even see them is mad. And having such a sealed plain cardboard mailing box full of vintage graded is utter insanity!</p><p></p><p>I remember a few years back a sealed case of Palitoy Death Stars was discovered. The owner carefully opened the case, graded some of the Death Stars, kept some and sold some. Now imagine if the owner had kept all 4 sealed inside the mailing box! How boring, unimaginative and selfish that would have been. Would they have a right to do that with their own property? Yes of course; they could have done anything they liked to it, setting the whole lot on fire if they wished. But doesn't the hobby as a whole benefit far more greatly from that case being opened and the contents put out into the collecting community?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snaketibe, post: 490498, member: 7379"] I'm no fan of grading, but one thing you can at least usually say for graded items is that you can actually see the item inside its perspex prison. Sealed cardboard cases of vintage items always puzzle me anyway, when their owners don't open them. I'm not suggesting they should open the items they remove from the brown cardboard boxes, of course, but come on! Keeping beautiful vintage items sealed inside a boring plain cardboard mailing box where you can't even see them is mad. And having such a sealed plain cardboard mailing box full of vintage graded is utter insanity! I remember a few years back a sealed case of Palitoy Death Stars was discovered. The owner carefully opened the case, graded some of the Death Stars, kept some and sold some. Now imagine if the owner had kept all 4 sealed inside the mailing box! How boring, unimaginative and selfish that would have been. Would they have a right to do that with their own property? Yes of course; they could have done anything they liked to it, setting the whole lot on fire if they wished. But doesn't the hobby as a whole benefit far more greatly from that case being opened and the contents put out into the collecting community? [/QUOTE]
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