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Posted By: boxingcardman

If you define low end as <$500 per card I believe that a relatively small % of collectors regularly buy "high end" cards. The vast majority of collectors, like the vast majority of people generally, don't have $500 in discretionary money available for single cards. Those of us that do should be happy we do. Regardless of how much a collector spends, to that collector his or her acquisitions are precious, and it is just wrong to denigrate the "low end" collectors on sheer economics. I know a lot of "low end" collectors who are passionate about the hobby and their collections and know far more about cards than some of the "high end" collectors. As far as economic impact, ask any dealer here and they will confirm that sales under $500 a card make up a large proportion of their businesses. <br>

As far as what it all means in the end, "nothing" is the answer. If you are purely doing this for money you are not a collector; if you are doing this out of a passion for the hobby, odds are your cards survive you anyway, regardless of whose plastic they are housed in.

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