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Where do the cardsavers go when PSA is finished with them?

MULLINS5MULLINS5 Posts: 4,517 ✭✭✭
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I personally don't see why they can't be put back in the box with the rest of our order...I'm not upset over this, I figure it in with the cost of grading, but more curious as to where they go..are they recycled? Sold? Trashed? If recycled, is it to the place which provides PSA with their cases? If sold, who would buy them at that large of a scale?

seems like smart business to sell or recycle into cases...hope they're not trashed.

Patrick

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  • 1989FleerBillRipkencollector1989FleerBillRipkencollector Posts: 4,590
    They said on here before. I think it was trash the beat up ones, reuse/recycle the rest.
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  • EchoCanyonEchoCanyon Posts: 2,303 ✭✭✭
    I could be wrong (and probably am), but I once thought I read they they get cut when PSA is taking the card out.
  • corvette1340corvette1340 Posts: 3,384 ✭✭✭
    cardsaver heaven for the good ones and cardsaver hell for the bad ones, obv.
  • ripkenintheminorsripkenintheminors Posts: 2,186 ✭✭✭
    They make floss out of them...
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  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    eBay!
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  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭
    They sell them and use the funds to pay for the bandwidth needed for this very question.

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  • jswietonjswieton Posts: 2,870 ✭✭✭
    I am pretty sure they cut the side of them to remove the card.
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    LMM wins a prize ... I believe this is the first time anyone posted using the words "Cypress Mulch" and "Bandwidth" in the same day! LMAO!
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  • otwcardsotwcards Posts: 5,291 ✭✭✭
    Cut the cards out of the CS1's? Where did this rumor start? Can you imagine the amount of time required and the potential damage to cards (and life and limb) if someone was in charge of cutting thousands of cards out of CS1's every week? Think this one through folks...

    Considering that they get stickers during the process (note the stickers on your rejects), it wouldn't make much sense to return them and even more difficult to recycle them.

    Once they're used and the cards are slabbed, I would venture a guess that they are little more than trash fodder...
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Scott I agree with everything you said but am at a loss as to why it would be hard to simply recycle them

    with other plastics?


    Steve
    Good for you.
  • otwcardsotwcards Posts: 5,291 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Scott I agree with everything you said but am at a loss as to why it would be hard to simply recycle them

    with other plastics?


    Steve >>



    It's California... I'm sure they're recycled, but not in the way that some others are suggesting or expecting.
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Oh, yeah I knew that they were not sending them to China

    or where ever they get the slabs from. I meant simply recycling them and the city picks em up.



    Steve
    Good for you.
  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I am pretty sure they cut the side of them to remove the card. >>



    I asked Carol this at the recent show and she said they dont cut all of them. My idea to her was to self-recycle them into the plastic slabs lol image
  • swartz1swartz1 Posts: 4,911 ✭✭✭
    It is a valid question...

    you'd think someone would provide the answer...

    just sayin...


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  • jackstrawjackstraw Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭✭
    Scott
    What did SGC do with them?

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  • SportsCardCollectorSportsCardCollector Posts: 320 ✭✭
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  • 1989FleerBillRipkencollector1989FleerBillRipkencollector Posts: 4,590
    ^^ lol

    Thought that was the Donruss factory in 1988.
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  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    I nominate you Swartz, PM, Email or phone someone at PSA and ask them.

    Then you can be the person that provides the answer.


    Steve

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    Good for you.
  • otwcardsotwcards Posts: 5,291 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Scott
    What did SGC do with them?

    John >>



    John:

    Not sure what the SOP is now, but back in the day, we'd write the grade on the seem of the CS1 and discard them to the recycling pile after the data was entered and they were finished in the slabbing room...
  • swartz1swartz1 Posts: 4,911 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I nominate you Swartz, PM, Email or phone someone at PSA and ask them.

    Then you can be the person that provides the answer.


    Steve

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    I hear ya Steve...

    Many "others" are quick to respond when threads warrant a response or a lock...

    I think this one "fits the bill"...





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  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Actually the very first person to reply answered the question.


    All the rest was fluff.



    Steve
    Good for you.
  • alnavmanalnavman Posts: 4,129 ✭✭✭


    << <i>^^ lol

    Thought that was the Donruss factory in 1988. >>



    WRONG....it was Proset factory
  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    i vaguely remember this topic being covered before here and i was under the assumption that a giant Card Saver landfill had been created and then a new housing development was built on top.....everything was fine until *someone* started a rumor that one of the Card Savers still had a T-206 Wagner in it and the wrecking ball showed up within 10 minutes. image
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