[jingram058]

My situation is we own our pool home outright, no mortgage, have 3 very lucrative pensions. Since I retired from the Navy, my medical is free other than the mandatory Medicare, which is automatically deducted from my Navy retirement. I'm doing fine.

I have some very nice, highly desirable, high end cards and memorabilia. Yes I have some beaters. None of my high end cards are anything less than high end, and would grade accordingly.

I'm not trying to set up cards as some sort of investment. I don't care about that sort of thing. That's when it stops being a hobby for me. Your mileage may vary, and that's fine, just not my bag.

Thus, I'm not going to pay one cent for someone's opinion of my cards. When either I or my wife or daughter ever sell them, they will go for whatever like graded examples go for or they won't be sold. Period, end of discussion.

Every graded card I have ever had has been cracked. I like raw cards; I have no desire for bulky, cumbersome slabs of plastic.

As Howard Cosell would have said, I told it like it is. For me. I am not going to help someone, somewhere get inherently rich opinonating or verifying the authenticity or whatever over my cards.