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The gap between grades is where most of a collection's value lives. A manga chase card in PSA 10 can be worth several times its PSA 8 price, and most of the damage that separates the two happens after the pack is opened: in the sleeve, in the binder, in the room. These are the habits that keep a card at the grade it was pulled at.
The five habits
- Sleeve at the pack. Edge wear starts in the first minute. Open packs over a clean surface and sleeve chase pulls before you look at the rest.
- Penny sleeve, then top loader or semi rigid. Never a bare top loader; the card slides and the corners pay for it.
- Binders only for cards you play. Binder pages press on foils and manga borders. Store value in top loaders or slabs, standing upright in a box.
- Humidity between 40 and 55 percent. Foils warp in damp rooms and crack in dry ones. A $15 hygrometer is the cheapest insurance in the hobby.
- Handle by the edges, and rarely. Every handling is a chance for a scratch on the foil layer that a grader will find.
The factory decides whether a card can be a 10. You decide whether it stays one.
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