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Topic: what do you do when someone sends you a bent foil?
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paris
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posted November 27, 2012 03:36 AM
      
If you order a lot of foil cards off the internet (both from auctions and from big dealers), chances are that some of them will come a little bent (I think because foil cards can naturally bend over time if exposed to any moisture).What do you personally do if you order a card and it comes a little bent? Do you just ignore that it's bent, and put it in a hard toploader or a binder where it looks just like any other card? Do you take a hairdryer to heat up the foil side and then try to bend it back the other way? Do you complain to the seller and ask for a new one? Or do you do something else?
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skizzikmonger
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posted November 27, 2012 04:38 AM
If it's bent, send it back and demand a refund. If it's warped, which is what I you're talking about, there are ways you can un warp it (the only one I know of is to put it in a penny sleeve, then put it under a stack of heavy books).
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caquaa
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posted November 27, 2012 04:49 AM
 
as long as you aren't running off to a tournament the next day w/ the card, just throw it into your deck and play with it. It will work itself out. I got some pretty badly warped foils two weeks ago and its jut been sitting in a deck and its fairly close to being back to normal.
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mysticknight
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posted November 27, 2012 11:22 AM
The older the card gets the more it will bend. Just be happy it isnt a creased damaged card. All foils bend. They actually help keep the rest of your deck flat and prevent the bending of nonfoil cards as a result of play.
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airwalk
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posted November 27, 2012 01:25 PM
Do you send soup back to your waiter because it's wet?  All foils warp, stick it under a book for a couple days or sleeve it up and play with it until you can't notice it anymore.
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Zeckk
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posted November 27, 2012 09:47 PM
I live in vegas, and the heat causes quite a bit of warping on cards in the summer months. Stick the foil in a sleeve, put it in your freezer with a heavy flat object on top, leave it in there for at least a day, preferably 2. Pull it out, and it should be fixed. It's worked for every foil warp I've had, with the exception of the PDS series (something about that foiling process causes MAJOR warping that resists correction efforts over time).
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LemonMeringue
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posted December 03, 2012 12:34 PM
Freezer eh? That doesn't cause any sort of water damage?
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paris
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posted December 03, 2012 12:41 PM
I've tried hair dryer and I've tried putting them under stacks of heavy books and I've tried putting them face to face in binders and most of my foils are less warped now, but there's still a few that are especially difficult.I ordered an airtight box and some dessicants online, will try that next for the cards that are still bent (put them in the box with the dessicants and see if the dessicants can absorb the moisture to help the cards bend back the right way).
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Zeckk
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posted December 03, 2012 01:10 PM
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Originally posted by LemonMeringue:
Freezer eh? That doesn't cause any sort of water damage?
Not possible unless you forget the card for months. Sleeve + flat surface weight also mitigates that possibility.
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MTDetermine
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posted December 03, 2012 09:55 PM
As long as the bent is natural (happens gradually on its own, and not due to someone damaging the cards), I find that putting 2 foil cards in a binder slot, each facing outwards, will solve the problem after a while (1 month). I found that the foils that I put in binder do not have bending problem, but the foils I left outside will. For foils that you play with, double-sleeve them (along with the non-foils) should do the trick.
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lordofthepit23
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posted December 05, 2012 01:10 PM
I politely tell them there is a problem with my order since I would not have bought a foil.
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paris
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posted December 09, 2012 09:02 AM
Update:I put two warped foil back to back in a penny sleeve and put it in the airtight box with the desiccants, and after a few days they're still warped. I also put a warped foil in the box not touching any other cards, and that hasn't seemed to help much either over a few days. I put another warped foil in the box with 4 quarters on the middle (where it was warped upward), and now it's warped slightly the other way. I also had a warped foil (outside the box) which I kept double sleeved and lined up 4 sets of 4 nickels over the middle (where it was warped up), and left it like that for about 12 hours, but that didn't fix it. I'm now trying a warped foil in the desiccant box where I put 4 quarters over the middle (to combat the warp) and also 4 nickels over each corner (to keep it from warping in the other direction) - I'll leave it there for a few days to see if that helps.
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