What happens to all the Card Savers?

Elemenopeo

As I sit here putting together my last-minute submission for the set registry special, I'm wondering -- what happens to all the Card Savers we send to PSA? They get tons of these things. Surely, they don't just throw them out. Do they become freebies for the employees? That's my bet. Still, it would seem they get more than all their employees could ever hope to use. Maybe, they give them to the needy. Hey, I'm needy! Wish they would just send them back with the cards.


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ToppsCo1lector

I don't doubt that most employees have large collections of cards.

Boopotts

We've discussed this before, and in fact a PSA employee came on the boards to straighten things out, and told us that they're thrown away. Which seems like a waste, but there you have it.

pandrews

i know i'm fresh out of card savers..

i even had to switch some that i had in cardsavers to toploads, and use the cardsavers on the cards i currently wanted to submit..

pandrews

i would melt them down and make a statue of liberty..

ToppsCo1lector

<< <i>We've discussed this before, and in fact a PSA employee came on the boards to straighten things out, and told us that they're thrown away. Which seems like a waste, but there you have it. >>



Uh huh

schr1st

Insulation or shingles, take your pick.

Stone193

<< <i>What happens to all the Card Savers? >>

itzagoner

Somewhere near Newport Beach (probably not) there is a landfill. In this landfill there are up to 9,000,000 Card Savers, as PSA has just recently claimed to have graded that many cards and beyond. I suppose if you could somehow get into that landfill, you would be able to literally swim in Card Savers! Not to mention all the other stuff you find in landfills....Hmmmm, maybe not

wolfbear

<< <i>We've discussed this before, and in fact a PSA employee came on the boards to straighten things out, and told us that they're thrown away. Which seems like a waste, but there you have it. >>



This was asked at the National during the PSA lunch.
The response was that they are recycled like any other plastic.

Boopotts

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<< <i>We've discussed this before, and in fact a PSA employee came on the boards to straighten things out, and told us that they're thrown away. Which seems like a waste, but there you have it. >>



This was asked at the National during the PSA lunch.
The response was that they are recycled like any other plastic. >>




Aren't CS's a 'type II' plastic that's unrecyclable (is that even a word)?

Wizardsguildcards

Only problem is they are usually cut open from my understanding to prevent possible damage from removing them. This is one of the reasons they want you to send CS instead of toploaders.

ralstonpurina

I second what Wizard said, I heard the same thing.

onlyanumber

<< <i>Somewhere near Newport Beach (probably not) there is a landfill. In this landfill there are up to 9,000,000 Card Savers, as PSA has just recently claimed to have graded that many cards and beyond. I suppose if you could somehow get into that landfill, you would be able to literally swim in Card Savers! Not to mention all the other stuff you find in landfills....Hmmmm, maybe not >>



please please please--someone here post the Don West swimming through cards video. That's the first thing that popped in my head when I read this. I know someone here has it.

ArchStanton

I believe that they are usually cut to remove the card. I've been wrong a time or three before.

CDsNuts

I always thought they were melted down and used for the slabs. Maybe I'm crazy.

Lee

Knuckles

bri2327

I've also heard that they are cut to remove the card more effectively.

RedRomad275

Cutting would make sense as to why PSA wants cards in CS1's and not 2's or toploaders.

Red

bowdowntome

As a nice gesture to the people who send their cards in to get graded, along with lot's of their hard earned money, PSA should return to the submitter new CS's, in the amount that was sent to them, which might just encourage the submitter to send more cards in, especially if the ones being sent in are being cut open and ruined.

Just a thought.

envoy98

They're not cut out. You could see the graders at the national last year pulling the cards out of the CS I's and sliding them back in.

phreakydancin

If the PSA grading process video is accurate, card savers are NOT cut. You can clearly see at the Encapsulation stage where they slide the card out of the CS and put it into a slab.

Stone193

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<< <i>Somewhere near Newport Beach (probably not) there is a landfill. In this landfill there are up to 9,000,000 Card Savers, as PSA has just recently claimed to have graded that many cards and beyond. I suppose if you could somehow get into that landfill, you would be able to literally swim in Card Savers! Not to mention all the other stuff you find in landfills....Hmmmm, maybe not >>



please please please--someone here post the Don West swimming through cards video. That's the first thing that popped in my head when I read this. I know someone here has it. >>


Only

Big Donny and cards, cards, and more cards!

mike

onlyanumber

Thanks Mike!

My appreciation of Don West grew when I saw this video. Had to go out and buy the TNA wrestling set just to get a card of him.

HoofHearted

Plus those stickers we attach to the CSs would be a pain to remove. That leaves any protector just good enough for extra packaging material.

And speaking of CSs, today I got the 30 that Stone offered me -- plust 70 more! Thanks, Stone!!! You're the best, man!

Now I'm looking for someone to pass on the good deed to...