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jay behrensCan you pull a single post where someone says that you are not a real collector if you collect slabbed cards? I don't recall this ever being said, but a lot of slab like to THINK that they have read this somewhere. It's kind of Baptists that are convinced the tribulation is in the bible, but it really isn't.
If people want to collect only slabbed cards, that is a perfectly acceptable way to collect. It's an easy way out of ot having to learn to authenticate the cards that you collect. That's fine. For some people, they feel they have better things to do than learn how to tell the difference between an real and fake card they collect and leave it a third party to do it for them. The point that most of us supposed anti-slabbers is that if you choose to collect only slabbed cards, then there is little chance that you will learn the ins and outs of being tell a real card from a fake when you finally make that find at an estate or garage sale. Wihout that knowledge, you have to decide if you want risk few hnder, or most likely a few thousand dollars on some cards you aren't whether they are real or not.
As for people that do want to have to defend a postition that they have posted, they can't be strong in their conviction of that stance if they aren't willing to defend it or listen to the other side. To me, that's just spineless and weak. But to each his own.
Jay
A good friend will come bail you out of jail. A true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn, that was fun."