Not necessarily in this case, but many in the twilight if their collecting careers could care less about grading, sales prices, or even selling cards. Others just entering, or spending big money on these vintage low pop, high grade cards, might feel otherwise. It's only been the lifeblood of new collectors entering the hobby that has maintained this hobby. Otherwise, cards and these "finds' may have been long forgotten and dumped in the ocean.
I had a bad in person experience traveling to Cooperstown for induction weekend. I stopped in quickly at the "card show", for lack of a better term, and found one card in the whole hallway I was interested in. After the dealer was done socializing, he came back to his table, if it hadn't been for his buddy behind the table, I would have just left. The dealer finally shows up, needless to say the card which he proceeded me was "a rare one", not priced, just thrown in a case, not graded and terribly OC was priced about 3x the going rate than a graded copy on Ebay, I walked out. Did it discourage me from talking cards, buying raw, or visiting n54? No, I just moved past it, as I do a number of threads on n54.
Speaking of sucking oxygen, I think it's time this dealer be put out to stud.
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