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Originally Posted by Topnotchsy
I don't know enough about Card Savers to know if you are right, but I don't agree with this argument. One Touch Card Holders can absolutely damage cards over time and people seem to ignore this. (One Touch Card Holders have a little area around the corner recessed. I have seen cards where over time, you can clearly see that the card itself has a mark at that location. I cannot say for sure that they were not shaken, but based the caliber of card, I assume it was just natural moving around from being brought to shows etc. (I vaguely remember someone doing a video on this which was on Youtube though it has been some time.)
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I would guess that in some tiny fraction of cases this may be true - I've seen people with shiny cards claiming that there are scratches and dents in their borders under magnification because of this problem. The possibility I would guess is more prevalent for certain types of cards over others. But on the whole for the large majority, and certainly for vintage - it is not. If true of One Touches / mag cases and their recessed cutouts - then it would also be true of all PSA slabs (their design for corner cutouts is nearly exactly the same). And I'm sorry, but on the whole we have never been inundated with stories about either OT's or PSA slabs damaging corners or edges on vintage cards en masse over time. We simply haven't.
I used to be very much on this bandwagon as well - indeed a lot of my recent preference for Card Savers over the past decade or so comes from the fact that I shudder most of the time when I see cards moving obviously within their cases. Whether that is with a slab, a mag, or a toploader. But the physics of the situation is simply that even if the card can move a tiny bit in the holder - unless you are just using your cases as air hockey pucks for extended periods of time - the risk of damage is very minimal. I think this continues to be borne out over time with the fact that nobody is really up in arms over any type of TPG slab...