TOP 10+ Indicators That YOU Are a Baseball Card Degenerate
 

1. You spend extra $200 for cards u dont really want for 4 dollar free postage

2. Check for eBay update listings at 5 am et.

3. You are the only one collecting a 'variation'.

4. Know the eBay Ids by heart.

5. Your want list is 10x more money them u will make in ur life

6. Rather trade card for cards then a nice profit.

7. Are saddened had how low cards u never would of bid on sold for at auction

8. Can't admit to your friends how much u paid for cards

9. Don't buy a. Burger with cheese making the burger 40 percent tasting better due to it being 3 dollar more but wiling to pay extra $300 on a card because centering is 5 percent better

10. The lowest graded card in ur sets are in your minds.

Bonus

11. You quote prices that you think are market price on a card you have been actively selling for months and nonths , then you dont agree with SMR, then you dont agree with past ebay sells, then you dont agree with CardTarget, then you dont agree with vintage card prices then you say you would rather keep the card as you are not getting what the card is worth.

Numbers 2,4,7,10 for me. Not too bad

- You meet board members in real life and have to adjust because you know them primarily by their avatar.

- I know the first 400+ pages of the Standard Catalog by heart. I know my anniversary is either October 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th. I think..

5 and 8 all day long......

When I first started reading this thread, I thought I was reading a text message.

1,5,6,7,9, and 10 apply to me. I guess that make me an almost degenerate.

1. You are a member of this forum
2. You sling a lingo that to the outsider makes you sound like a chemist

You inspect the corners/edges of random pieces of paper wondering what they would grade...

You will buy a card you don't necessarily want or need just because you got a good deal.

right
 

some real good ones there.

Unless you are a T206 'error' collector - then there are 3 other people collecting it.

Two more
 

> Your wife thinks your collection is worth "X", when, in fact, it is worth 5-10x more than what you quoted her.

> You have cards shipped to your work to avoid the incessant: "when are one of those packages going to be for me"?

You read Net 54.:D

You start referring to net54 members you've never met as your friends.

You search on ebay using misspellings (e.g., "Hank Aron") hoping you'll find a great card at an unbelievably low price, because no one else has run across it.

Haha, some really good ones. And about half apply to me. Can't say I'm surprised.

You have Vaseline and Kleenex on the ready for when the REA Spring catalog arrives.

Come on. I'm not the only one.

Right?

Right?

Tom C

You soak cards more often than you do laundry.

...and I'm the super-creepy Rob Lowe.

+1 I have been buying/selling/trading with a few guys for 15+ years I call friends that I have never met in real life. Heck we even send each other emails that have nothing to do with baseball cards once in a while.

Sitting at the pool watching people swim.

Tom C

I can't go when other people are looking :(

Yeah, and then when you finally meet them, they turn out to be really old ladies or border collies with opposable thumbs.

Bonus
 

Buying at auction a LOT of 10 cards cause you only need 1 card in the bunch and its the cheapest of the LOT

lol been there done that

You tell yourself that it has gone to high for you. Then 30 seconds later you hit the bid button.

You pay your 11 year old daughter to put the packages the mailman delivers while you are work in your baseball closet before Mom comes home.

Or, you have a baseball closet. :D

Ur not the only 1 SMH

Back to the thread....

You get outbid by another collector and know who outbid you even before they post the card in a Net54 thread!

I'm guilty of this!

I tell myself "it was a good deal so I'll use it as trade material.".

A variation of these is:

You overpay for a card you "need" and haven't seen in years (if ever). A month later, a virtually identical second card becomes available for sale and you buy it as well (a) because you can't let it "go for cheap", (b) you need to justify having overpaid for the first, and (c) because, like me, you are addicted to cardboard!

You have looked at the balance in your bank account and figured out what one card you could purchase with it.

You spend all of your free time on an internet message board discussing 113 to 115-year-old pieces of cardboard.

You get hot and bothered because people on a free internet message board take up too much space discussing 113 to 115-year-old pieces of cardboard when you would much rather talk about cardboard that is either slightly younger or slightly older.

When you take your dog for a long walk you wonder if you passed any houses with a dusty box of prewar cards in the attic.

You watch auctions end just to see if you were right about the final price.

TOP 10+ Indicators That YOU Are a Baseball Card Degenerate
 

You are eagerly waiting for 1987 topps cards to finally get the respect they so rightfully deserve.

You force your kids to go to card shows with you because you know that the dealers might give you a better price or some swag since your kids are with you.

3,5,6,and 9 for me

I've corrected that for you David. :D

Ha! Yes, them too!

You wake up in the middle of the night (2:00 a.m.) and decide to check ebay and then read some net54 posts.

Your first thought upon purchase of a lottery ticket are the cards you would buy with your winnings.

When having a bad day or feeling low, you can always go to your collection of 100+ year old men on cardboard and it instantly makes you feel better.

You strategize about scenarios about how you will explain card purchases to your wife..

when you read a thread like this
 

in it's entirety just to see if there's one indicator someone else has that you might not

this!

You have paid more for a single card than you paid for your first car.

That's a good one, I have several cards I paid more for than the first beater car I had.

I grow produce for a living and have most of my cards sent to the business address. Only my eBay purchases come to our house and I rarely buy off there.

This!!!

You actually think about the collection you would have (and where you would go first) if time travel existed

Colors you see on vehicles and buildings remind you of particular sets.

jeff

I dont have that one. Bright colors remind me of the 60's and 70's. :rolleyes: