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Originally Posted by Leon
There are thousands of collectors outside of Net54baseball.com.
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Leon, first, yes, he looks like Barnabas Collins, but that makes your card distinctly "Non-sports" and it doesn't fit into your collection, so you will have to sell it to me.
Are there really thousands of collectors for pre-war cards that aren't on Net54? I've been here long enough to see, ahem, "splinter" groups form, and some of these groups have gone their separate ways.
I guess there are the whales who don't really post, and a couple dealers who don't. But I would wager that most people who are buying T206s will google "T206", find the board, and head that way at least once. At least they find "OldCardboard" and then they click on the link here. Am I exaggerating to think that 50-75% (maybe more) of people who collect pre-war at least lurk on this board? I've never been to the National, but at the Philly show, most of the people I see are those that I have seen on this board at some point. I think we have more power than we think to influence a card's popularity (and price).