theforceuk said:
I have to say I buy graded and ungraded and more of my ungraded MOC have been damaged than the graded ones.
I'm sure that's quite true, as MOCs can't suffer a number of different accidents if they're sealed rather than not. I'm just having a gentle joke above, as transparently the one thing a graded MOC can't have is the blister being supported, and hence sadly being graded cannot always guarantee a MOC holding its value in cases like the poor Yak Face pictured. AFA cases offer excellent protection in most respects, but sadly not in that particular one, and if the figure punches through the blister or if the entire bubble comes free because adequate support could not be provided during transit (which is of course where most damage of this kind is likely to occur), then it makes a mockery of the rest of the protection the AFA cases offer :-(