sold this, obv I refunded the buyer and now I got the card back. Sent in a regular bubble mailer but yeah its destroyed. Do I keep it as a fun little sealed psa 10 example or try to regrade? Also usps claims seem to not be working online anymore. I got their mail order claim form but it is not as easy to fill out proof of damage.
I’m sorry, but when I read the title of this thread I just bursted out laughing
Congrats, you won the USPS truck mangling lottery!
Is the card actually damaged, it honestly looks like it survived
Toss a little PlastX on it and I think it should be fine.
If this card has actually survived I have to give some credit to PSA for once.
Card looks ok, I am considering regrading it but I don’t know if I will need to show usps claims the busted case before I do so. Unfortunately I have a batch of stuff ready to grade going out tomorrow Id like to add this to but if they come back and say please prove the card is damaged it will already be recased
Maybe you can get the VA (vehicle accident) qualifier from PSA now?
Another name to the PSA Slab torture test
Too soon
well subtract 1 from aquapolis pop report, Ill probably regrade it
Can’t you just pay to get the slab “refreshed”? That way they don’t have to actually re-grade it.
too much damage, thats more for if there is no way anyone could reach into the slab and tamper. Like with small edge dings and such. This one was practically fully open. I cracked it and it looks pretty undamaged but we will see I guess
Did you put the slab loose in a bubble mailer or was it reinforced by cardboard/something hard? In this instance, the damage is so severe that the slab was probably fucked anyway lol, but just curious.
Just a plastic sleeve and bubble mailer. Never had an issue before but I guess I need to throw in a brick of steel next time
Did you get the full insurance payout?
So are we just gonna rule out that the Magneton came to life and induced a magnetic force field? And yes I know the case is plastic but science
still trying to work with their broken system
Sorry to see that.
Just from what I’ve heard from other people. I wonder if USPS will likely try to just pass the blame onto the OP for packaging it improperly.
If you keep hitting walls, show up at your rep’s local office and complain about inability to navigate a Fed system. They can usually help grease a wheel or two and speed things up.
As for the slab, I’d keep it as is! What a funky little story and a great talking point in your collection.
I only recently started buying slabs, and the second one I ever bought arrived busted up. It was shipped to me inside a bubble mailer and the seller had put it in a plastic bag. Package arrive with the entire bottom of the mailer cut open, fragments of the case loose inside and the sleeve was mangled. Not sure wtf happened. My guess is someone thought it was a phone so they cut open the mailer only to be disappointed by my vileplume.