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04-14-2018, 08:51 AM | #1 |
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PSA holders ....
Are they still using the hologram flip and not the lighthouse from time to time? I just saw a 2018 card that has the pre-lighthouse flip which struck me as odd.
Has anyone else seen 2018 cards like the Heritage Rhys Hoskins PSA 10 on eBay? https://www.ebay.com/itm/2018-Topps-...c60d%7Ciid%3A1 |
04-14-2018, 08:58 AM | #2 |
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They must be. I have some lighthouse flips with lower serial numbers. That's disappointing.
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04-14-2018, 09:02 AM | #3 |
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Also interesting that neither the holder nor auction lists it as a team color swap
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04-14-2018, 09:19 AM | #4 |
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Where can I find an image of these different PSA holders?
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04-14-2018, 09:43 AM | #5 |
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04-14-2018, 09:48 AM | #6 |
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04-14-2018, 09:57 AM | #7 |
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Your mileage may vary. They get many of them wrong, even when the submitted puts the correct variation on the order form. Why even use online submission forms that help them do the job if they're going to ignore what you've labeled it anyways?
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04-14-2018, 10:00 AM | #8 |
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ive wondered this as well and have to think that bulk submitters get some sort of price break to accept the holo stock
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Yes. They still have some of the older rectangular hologram flips laying around and i'm guessing for some cheaper bulk orders they use those. I had gotten the rectangular holo flips in all of my bulk orders until the very last one i got back a month ago, which was around 220 cards and all of them had the new lighthouse labels. If you send in a 10 day, or 2 day order, etc they will definitely be slabbed with lighthouse labels, but on the cheapest services they may push off some of the older labels on you. Which i'm totally ok with, they have to get rid of them. |
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04-14-2018, 01:46 PM | #12 |
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Ive been asking this for awhile, with no real answer. Even PSA had no idea when I called and asked them. The rep checked with a supervisor and said the only explanation was that it was being used for bulk orders, which is where you usually find these on ebay. no one has them return to them in holo holders anymore from PSA, you only find them for sale from dealers and on ebay.
personally I think its stupid. the holo flips are the same exact ones as the lightening ones. its just the label that's different. unless they are using up old labels. but even that's weird, because the typing and font are two different ones. they look like they are printed from two way too different printers. anyone else wanna call PSA and ask again? |
04-14-2018, 03:39 PM | #14 |
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04-14-2018, 05:17 PM | #15 | |
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recent subs are around the 290XXXXX cert and from what ive seen, haven't even hit the 30000000 number yet. and its a brand new card, so its not like the cert was old and reholdered. |
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04-14-2018, 07:47 PM | #16 |
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Yes, they have cleared 30,000,000. But they already used a chunk of numbers starting with 30 million about 15 years ago. So I'm glad to see they skipped that group of cert numbers or there would be a whole bunch of errors when people tried to add their cards to their Inventory.
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same seller |
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04-15-2018, 12:59 AM | #18 | |
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How do you know they cleared 30000000? Recent return subs are only at 290XXXXX. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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It's not just "paper". Those hologram flips have, well, holograms on the front and back, metallic elements, security features... in other words, things that cost more money than just "paper". They're 100% legit flips, psa has to use up the old stock, honestly they probably are saving thousands of dollars doing so, and they're using them for the cheapest cards/ cheapest level submissions. On lower end cards it's not like the psa 10s with lighthouse labels sell for any more than the rectangular holo labels, so like I said, I'm cool with it. I own a considerable amount of CLCT stock and I understand cost cutting measures/ money saving measures. It's part of business and adds to their bottom line. Believe me four sharp corners and whoever else is getting these is fine with it because they pay extremely low grading fees. It's not like it's going to turn them off and they're never going to grade with psa again. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk |
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04-15-2018, 05:56 AM | #20 |
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Saw a 2-day order return to someone on Facebook.
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And oh please, “it’s not just paper.” How much can a flip actually cost them? If it’s any more than 2-3 cents per, I’d be surprised. If they had so many left in stock, they should have used them up when they first introduced the lighthouse label, not like a year later or whatever it is. They’ve also been pimping out that fact on FB, twitter and instagram. They’ve been having a free Platinum collector’s club membership giveaway to celebrate it.
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04-15-2018, 01:07 PM | #22 | |
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that cert which starts 31XXXXXX must be a recycled cert or something. |
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04-15-2018, 04:50 PM | #24 |
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There's a guy on the PSA KIR facebook group that just posted his return and the cards started with 30.9 million. So there you go, they have eclipsed 30,000,000 and hopefully they didn't duplicate the ones they've already used.
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04-15-2018, 07:17 PM | #25 |
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wow they went from 290 - 304 in no time.
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