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Originally Posted by puckpaul
People don’t seem to care in general (we do, but not many more). I just had a dealer post a hockey set on Facebook with older psa 8 grades. Most of them looked like 5-6 today. He priced them at what seemed like reasonable prices for 8’s today off recent comps. Those comps are all over the place on quality of grading. But recent 6’s were $400-600 for the best cards, and $1400–1800 for 8’s. I was about to send him a private note but before i could i saw his post that the set had sold. (A lots of recent high end hockey card collectors are having registry battles it seems, so they care mostly about the flip). It wasn’t up very long so i doubt it was discounted at all. Seems crazy to me. The cards aren’t that hard to come by in the lower grades they deserved (some were off center but moreso at least one really soft corner on each “8”, even allowing for rough OPC cuts). Each of these were graded 8. Not bad cards, and the checklist can get a premium, but i figured buyers would balk at “8” prices. Wrong.
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Yes, you are right on. This set did sell for a premium.
This registry set game among the hockey guys is a fools game. Most are what us “experienced” collectors call “Facebook stars”.
I’m closing in on completing the 1936-37 OPC in mid grade(4-6). Showed it to a “star” who is a relative newbie and he was all over me to put it in the PSA registry as there are apparently only five complete sets in the registry. Who knew? Frankly I have little interest in doing so, only to look at upgrading this and that on some made up competition.
Maybe I’m just a collector who likes to collect for me.