Setting Definitions for Rarity of Cards

[Matthew H]

Look on the bright side Leon, if the right people wanted those cards you may not have been able to buy them!

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Matthew H

Look on the bright side Leon, if the right people wanted those cards you may not have been able to buy them!

If any of my 3 National table partners wanted something I did in auction, I would have no chance. My collection is of things most collectors don't want. I am good with that. I don't like easily obtainable stuff as much as I do stuff that is usually not seen...heck, it would be easier to obtain a T206 Wags, with enough money, than it would many cards in a type card collection. I love looking at things that don't get shown every day. Collect what you like....

[Matthew H]

I agree Leon, you have some killer stuff.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Matthew H

I agree Leon, you have some killer stuff.

Thank you. So many of our members have great collections it's always fun to see what they have acquired (when they care to share). Each person is passionate about what they collect. The more passion the more I like it. It makes the blood flow .

[buymycards]

It doesn't matter when the card was issued. 10,000 isn't rare. Neither is 1000.

[thehoodedcoder]

Seems pretty simple to me:

https://www.google.com/#output=searc...w=1366&bih=626

Rare: "not ocurring very often".

By itself it is an "inconclusive conclusion" which someone has drawn based on other evidence which they don't present. This definition itself implies relativity and subjectivity. Often depends on your definition of the "time frame" or relative to other items similiar in nature.

For you to call something rare you must also, give the reason to what you are comparing it to, to draw that conclusion. It is rare in comparison to X.

You can call shit rare, all you want....it means nothing without the conclusion to the premise.

Kevin

[doug.goodman]

...10,000 isn't rare. Neither is 1000.

10,000 is pretty rare if 10,000,000 want it...

[HRBAKER]

Rare and not rare can also apply to the very same card. As in, "It was rare when I bought it, obviously not so much when I went to sell it."

[ValKehl]

Originally Posted by Leon

... I don't like easily obtainable stuff as much as I do stuff that is usually not seen... I love looking at things that don't get shown every day. Collect what you like....

+1!!!
Val

[Rich Klein]

if I own it, not rare -- if Leon owns it -- very rare

If you make 50 of a card and only 25 people want it (manufactured scarcity) -- you have an easy card

And supply and demand -- the rarest and most expensive stamp is a postally used dirty and written on 1c british guyana stamp which wikipedia (and we know how reliable the internets are) says is locked up in a bank vault because the owner died while in prison.

My goal is the find of Fans Card including Cobb and Ruth

Rich

[thehoodedcoder]

Originally Posted by Rich Klein

if I own it, not rare -- if Leon owns it -- very rare

If you make 50 of a card and only 25 people want it (manufactured scarcity) -- you have an easy card

And supply and demand -- the rarest and most expensive stamp is a postally used dirty and written on 1c british guyana stamp which wikipedia (and we know how reliable the internets are) says is locked up in a bank vault because the owner died while in prison.

My goal is the find of Fans Card including Cobb and Ruth

Rich

yet nothing like what the definition says rare means and implies...

i thought i answered thoroughly enough for this topic to be permanantly closed.

kevin

[HRBAKER]

Apparently everyone didn't think so.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by thehoodedcoder

yet nothing like what the definition says rare means and implies...

i thought i answered thoroughly enough for this topic to be permanantly closed.

kevin

I am with Jeff. One of two things, you were either joking around with us or sadly mistaking. No subject is permanently closed on this board.....

[thehoodedcoder]

I guess, much like religion and science, when faced with an undeniable argument there will still be people(lots of them) who don't believe what is being said or shown to them.

Verbal falacy:

Argument from Innuendo:
This fallacy consists in directing others to a certain conclusion through a careful choice of words or sentences that suggest but do not assert that conclusion. For example, a dean of students, asked whether a graduate had any disciplinary problems, replied "No, we were never able to convict him of any violations of college rules." The suggestion here is that the university had suspected and/or investigated disciplinary problems. The use of innuendo is not strictly fallacious (for example, in the above example); there isn't anything inherently fallacious about suggesting a conclusion implicitly without offering evidence, and innuendo often occurs outside the context of an argument. The fallacy arises in cases when such an argument is used to shift the burden of proof, making it similar to the fallacy of argument from ignorance.

You guys can continue to debate it if you would like to

[Rich Klein]

Originally Posted by thehoodedcoder

yet nothing like what the definition says rare means and implies...

i thought i answered thoroughly enough for this topic to be permanantly closed.

kevin

It's not over thill we say it's over

Rich