Posted By:
Al Crisafulli"I think I would rather have this and keep the other 100 dollars insted of buying the "buy back" matty any day of the week."
That's what's great about this hobby. There's something for everyone.
I don't particularly like the shiny stuff, but I think this is a hobby that appeals to many different people, for many different reasons. If someone gets joy out of collecting shiny cards, or buybacks, or whatever, and they have the budget to do so, more power to them. There are many collectors who are not concerned with the financial appreciation (or lack thereof) of the cards in their collection.
I've seen threads on various boards where people get all over collectors who like high-grade vintage cards in slabs only. Those threads almost always degenerate into an argument where the purists criticize the high-grade collector, stating that they're not really "collectors" but "accumulators", who don't collect out of love for the hobby and are only interested in the value of their investments. But then threads like this one come along, and the modern card collector is criticized for overpaying for cards that will never retain their value. But I would say that the one thing many of us have in common is that our love affair with the hobby began with us opening a pack of worthless modern cards at some point.
We like what we like.
-Al