Hello. Is it normal for PSA slabs to have these dust particles sealed inside? I realised many of my slabs have it upon taking a closer look.
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Hello. Is it normal for PSA slabs to have these dust particles sealed inside? I realised many of my slabs have it upon taking a closer look.
It happens on occasion. If it bugs you a lot, you could send it in to get the cards recased at your expense, but there is no guarantee that it won’t happen again.
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PSA = Please Submit Again
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Most slabs have some sort of dust in them if you look at them closely, some smaller and harder to notice, while some are bigger and are easily identifiable from a distance. It is inevitable with dust particles being airborne. Somehow a few will be encased along with the card.
I once sent a PSA card to reholder due to dust, in the end the slab came back with dust in another spot.
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If the card is from your own submission and you found the issue within 5 days of getting the slab from PSA, you can file a CRC request and ask for a free reholder. (They might agree even if you reported the issue outside the 5 days in some cases, although you’ll get scolded for not reporting in time lol )
Go to https://www.psacard.com/myaccount/customerrequestcenter and select Quality Assurance Request. Submit your request with 2 photos for each slab in question, one being the full front view of the slab (they use this photo to make sure you have the card in question in hand) and second photo being the close-up shot of the particle you found. Here’s an example from my previous claim:
First photo
Second photo
Once PSA’s Customer Service agreed to have you send the slab back, they will enable the CRC option in submission center so that you can select the CRC service tier when you start a new reholder request. Create a new submission with the option and send your slabs back with the submission.
Note that you risk PSA damaging your card during the reholder process as you’re asking them to go through the holdering process again, which I had experienced on one of my cards and they ended up regrading the 10 to a 4 and paid me the difference.
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I’ve had it with basically all of them. I just had a slab from CGC with a hair or something above the card. Fortunately it was a slab I was planning to crack from the get go.
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