Changing collecting habits or thinking about getting out altogether?

[Rhotchkiss]

I am very interested in assisting/lending a hand to anyone with rare Cobbs, wagners, or rare t206 backs who wants to get out of the hobby. Happy to buy you out so you can start the next chapter of your collecting life.

I am long on cardboard, through good times and bad. Forward! Just be smart

[ls7plus]

Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss

I am very interested in assisting/lending a hand to anyone with rare Cobbs, wagners, or rare t206 backs who wants to get out of the hobby. Happy to buy you out so you can start the next chapter of your collecting life.

I am long on cardboard, through good times and bad. Forward! Just be smart

I've take a bit of a leave of absence from collecting for the purpose of acquiring a winter home in Florida--accomplished!--and a suitable pleasure vehicle to leave down there. As it is just intended to be a temporary lull in the action, I think I'll keep my own tough Cobbs and Wagners!

I will hate to miss Fred's Post Canadian Cereal meeting/dinner at the National, though. Would have liked to have been there! Great, challenging set.

With high regard,

Larry

[Kenny Cole]

I won't quit because I've been doing it too long, but I am certainly revising some of my collecting habits. To the extent that I am aware who they are, I will not buy from fraudsters, even when they have a card I really want.

You really have to draw the line somewhere. That will likely slow me down a lot, but that's OK too. I would rather by from someone like Al (LOTG), Brian (REA), or Lee (Sterling), each of whom I absolutely trust, than ever throw money at a place like PWCC. I can live with slow. I can't do what I perceive as fraud.

[Peter_Spaeth]

As Baloo the Bear sings,

When you find out you can live without it
And go along not thinkin' about it

[Exhibitman]

Just accelerating a trend i was already on: replacing the graded cards with raw instead.

[rats60]

Originally Posted by ls7plus

I've take a bit of a leave of absence from collecting for the purpose of acquiring a winter home in Florida--accomplished!--and a suitable pleasure vehicle to leave down there. As it is just intended to be a temporary lull in the action, I think I'll keep my own tough Cobbs and Wagners!

I will hate to miss Fred's Post Canadian Cereal meeting/dinner at the National, though. Would have liked to have been there! Great, challenging set.

With high regard,

Larry

Agree. I fund most of my collecting by selling off cards that I no longer want to buy "better cards," downsizing the collection while maintaining its value. I will be holding onto my Wagners, Cobbs and key RCs like the 49 Leaf Jackie Robinson and slowing way down to see how this all shakes out. I have no interest in trading up my "real" cards for altered ones with large numbers on the slabs.

[pokerplyr80]

Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss

I am very interested in assisting/lending a hand to anyone with rare Cobbs, wagners, or rare t206 backs who wants to get out of the hobby. Happy to buy you out so you can start the next chapter of your collecting life.

I am long on cardboard, through good times and bad. Forward! Just be smart

I was thinking the same thing. I will add Jackson, Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle, and since people seem especially worried about them 48 Robinsons to the list.

[drcy]

Originally Posted by pokerplyr80

I was thinking the same thing. I will add Jackson, Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle, and since people seem especially worried about them 48 Robinsons to the list.

I'm sure you be able to find them from PWCC

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by pokerplyr80

I was thinking the same thing. I will add Jackson, Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle, and since people seem especially worried about them 48 Robinsons to the list.

On the BO list of outed and potentially bad cards there are more 48 Leaf Jackies than anything else. Be careful.

[dabigyankeeman]

I am continuing to buy, but if I see basically a similar card in PSA and SGC and its priced similar, I am more into buying the SGC card now.

[Exhibitman]

Not sure that much of the evolution of my collecting has to do with PWCC or other scandals at the higher end of things as I rarely buy cards of the sort that seem to draw the attention of the cheaters. I think I bought exactly one PSA 9 or 10 in the last two years and it was an impulse buy at the National last year. It may have more to do with a desire to have my cards in albums I can comfortably flip through at leisure. I built up a considerable slabbed collection, mostly with my own submissions, before realizing that slabs are too much work to store and look through. So I'd been replacing slabs with raw cards for most postwar mainstream issues over the last two years anyway.

As I get more time in the hobby under my belt I find that I'm also drawn more to rare issues than to the so-called condition rarities. Something that has a handful of known examples in any grade, yes please! Something that has 8,000 slabbed examples, not so much. And 8-9-10, who gives a damn? I would rather have a really nice looking card with a technical flaw like a wrinkle. The TPG thing is really just a useful tool for resale items as far as I am concerned because in eBay sales it seems to be needed to realize top dollar.

[dabigyankeeman]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

It may have more to do with a desire to have my cards in albums I can comfortably flip through at leisure. I built up a considerable slabbed collection, mostly with my own submissions, before realizing that slabs are too much work to store and look through. So I'd been replacing slabs with raw cards for most postwar mainstream issues over the last two years anyway.

I feel the same way about loving cards in albums and not in slabs. I used to break open the slabs, but now do something different. I make a lifesize copy of the card in its slab on my printer/copier/scanner on top quality photo paper, and then i carefully cut out the card. I put this cutout card into the sheet in my album where the card should be. It looks great, and its an actual copy of my card, flaws and all, as opposed to a reprint which I would have nothing to do with, I hate reprints. This works great on all size cards, I have done everything from tobacco cards thru a big Butterfinger, and looks super whether its a black and white card or a color one. Its totally realistic, you can hardly tell a good copy from a real card in a plastic sheet.

[bnorth]

I changed from collecting insane amounts of Billy Ripken(The original F*ck Face) to this small hoard of new F*ck Face cards.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by dabigyankeeman

I feel the same way about loving cards in albums and not in slabs. I used to break open the slabs, but now do something different. I make a lifesize copy of the card in its slab on my printer/copier/scanner on top quality photo paper, and then i carefully cut out the card. I put this cutout card into the sheet in my album where the card should be. It looks great, and its an actual copy of my card, flaws and all, as opposed to a reprint which I would have nothing to do with, I hate reprints. This works great on all size cards, I have done everything from tobacco cards thru a big Butterfinger, and looks super whether its a black and white card or a color one. Its totally realistic, you can hardly tell a good copy from a real card in a plastic sheet.

I do that too, except I print it with the slab flip included.

[pokerplyr80]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

On the BO list of outed and potentially bad cards there are more 48 Leaf Jackies than anything else. Be careful.

I don't really expect my inbox to be flooded with net54 members looking to dump pwcc or 48 Robinson purchases. And yes I would verify what I could and take precautions as necessary as I try to do with any purchase. But the offer is genuine if anyone wants out of those cards.