[MattyC]

Thanks, B.

I agree. That 6 on eBay is lovely. It's a very personal call on how one pulls the trigger and at what price points, but the way I buy, I could not give a flying f&@k what PSA or SGC says about a card as nice that SGC 6 on eBay. It blows away many PSA 6s in the looks department, including the Heritage card that just sold for over 50k. The sad but understandable politics of crossing are such that one TPG would NEVER give it the same grade unless it was cracked and subbed raw.

But even in a PSA 5.5 holder, that eBay SGC 6 card would and should command more than the PSA 6 that Heritage just auctioned.

In terms of how holders can often be dismissed in this day and age, where the old adage of "Buy The Card, Not The Holder" seems to be the prevailing philosophy among so many collectors, the collector who won a recent 6 at a big auction called me before placing his winning bid, and offered me only two less grand for mine than he paid for the 6.