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what are you doing with your unopened wax?

lightningboylightningboy Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭
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Now that PSA has made it much tougher to get wax packs graded, are you opening some of them? Or are you trying to figure out ways to get the gum to stick(other than the ill fated microwave experiment)? Just curious, Tom

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  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,742 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Keep the packs unopened and raw, unless I open them, lol. Packs display nicely in top loader and team bag and no worries about wrapper tears. I would definitely not tamper with the pack just to make the gum stick to the card as that will very possibly ruin the cards inside the pack.

    Hopefully, PSA will either redesign the holder (very unlikely) or simply authenticate packs without numerically grading them, which would solve the problem, imo.


    Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
  • elsnortoelsnorto Posts: 2,012 ✭✭
    I sent mine to fergie23 for safe keeping.

    Snorto~
  • esquiresportsesquiresports Posts: 1,360 ✭✭✭
    I've actually never gotten any of my packs graded, so no change in approach. Primarily because of my unwillingness to wait months to get packs back, I have always purchased my graded packs online - the majority from CU members.
    Always buying 1971 OPC Baseball packs.
  • ChiefsFan1stChiefsFan1st Posts: 845 ✭✭✭
    Ive got mine packaged up and in a shoe box just hoping someday PSA will change their mind or as Grote mentioned, at
    least just authenticate and encapsulate. Im still kicking myself for not subbing them before they changed their policyimage
    I dont wanna grow up, Im a Toys-R-Us kid!
  • StoogeStooge Posts: 4,668 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>what are you doing with your unopened wax? >>

    Not a __________ thing! It is in the locked Hallway closet on a shelf. Everytime I walk by the door I hear Cha-ching, Cha-ching!

    Paul.

    Later, Paul.
  • cpamikecpamike Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I sent mine to fergie23 for safe keeping.

    Snorto~ >>



    I am so sorry for your loss.
    "The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep."

    "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

    Collecting:
    Any unopened Baseball cello and rack packs and boxes from the 1970's and early 1980s.
  • jmaciujmaciu Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭
    I too keep my lose packs stored against a top loader inside a team bag.

    Jmaciu's Collection
  • jeffcbayjeffcbay Posts: 8,950 ✭✭✭✭
    What did I miss? PSA has changed their pack grading?
  • GriffinsGriffins Posts: 6,076 ✭✭✭


    << <i>What did I miss? PSA has changed their pack grading? >>



    apparently they will no longer grade packs with loose gum.

    Anyone know in a microwave if the fusing point of gum to card is lower than the melting point of wax wrapper? Will foil packs explode like a drying poodle if microwaved?

    Always looking for Topps Salesman Samples, pre '51 unopened packs, E90-2, E91a, N690 Kalamazoo Bats, and T204 Square Frame Ramly's

  • jeffcbayjeffcbay Posts: 8,950 ✭✭✭✭
    So they will only grade packs where the gum is melted to the cards, thus making the pack worthless anyway? Seems legit.
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,742 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>So they will only grade packs where the gum is melted to the cards, thus making the pack worthless anyway? Seems legit. >>



    The real issue at hand is liability--with the gum broken or loose in the pack, a pack graded PSA 9 could become a PSA 6 after one trip through the postal system, in which case PSA would have to reimburse the owner of the pack for the difference in value between the grades and reholder the pack.

    There are many vintage packs in which gum has fused to the top card of the pack over the years, and though that top card will usually exhibit damage from the gum, the rest of the cards in the pack are typically fine and unaffected, unless we're talking about an issue like 1972 OPC wax, which had a very large and sugary stick of gum that often ruined the top few cards in the pack if not properly stored through the years.


    Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
  • MapleleafMapleleaf Posts: 506 ✭
    I opened so many packs with the gum stuck.. I just couldn't help myself.image
  • YogiBerraFanYogiBerraFan Posts: 2,390 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>What did I miss? PSA has changed their pack grading? >>



    apparently they will no longer grade packs with loose gum.

    Anyone know in a microwave if the fusing point of gum to card is lower than the melting point of wax wrapper? Will foil packs explode like a drying poodle if microwaved? >>



    I hope nobody is actually putting their packs in a microwave. If you must make sure you have a mug filled with water in there too. Putting your packs in your attic or the trunk of your car on a hot day will give you the desired results.
  • FirstBeardFirstBeard Posts: 472 ✭✭✭


    << <i> Putting your packs in your attic or the trunk of your car on a hot day will give you the desired results. >>



    Then where will I keep the dead hookers?
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