My thoughts on why some (many?) collectors, including me, are not fans of framing cards is it takes them out of circulation. Photos, I get, but cards were intended to be traded whether for money or other cards and for me there is a psychological thing where framing a card means it has met its final resting place. I think it is cool if that is the intent as the displays in this thread are amazing and collectors can and should do anything they want. I guess you could crack them out if need be when you know you framed them properly, which is why several people in this thread don't like buying pre-framed stuff as you can't be sure in those cases. The framed graded cards mitigate this yet put the cards in a "double jail", which seems weird and awesome to me at the same time.
For me, my entire collection must have the ability to be liquidated relatively quickly. I don't churn my collection a lot but I have this innate feeling that I need the ability to trade anything at anytime. When I was a kid and collected in the mid-seventies, cards were the equivelant of cash between me and my friends. Hope this makes sense.
Scott
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