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Originally Posted by TanksAndSpartans
Before TPGs, I don’t think there were huge price differentials based on condition.
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True, and good reminder. In the 80's, a card whether vintage (the term didn't exist) or modern - it was priced pretty much the same whether today we would call the card a 10 or a 6. A card had to have a noticeable flaw to get a discount from whatever book price or percentage thereof the dealer was using assuming it was EX-ish or better, as I recall. The '87 Fleer Will Clark for example - may have been a $20 card in 1989. A noticeably "EX" card with touches to the corners might have gone fore $15. But an O/C card with decent corners that would have been maybe a 6 today? Still would have asked $20. Dumb example maybe, but that is how I think of it using a card I would have been interested in before TPG's. (Note the '87 Fleer Will Clark is not worth anything near that today in EX condition...oy.)
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Last edited by jchcollins; 05-17-2019 at 09:35 PM.
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