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Posted By: Dan Bretta

I really don't understand collectors who will pay huge sums of money for condition rarity. $500,000 for a 52 Topps Pafko??? A card that can be had in lesser condition on ebay EVERY SINGLE DAY OF THE YEAR. An extrememly common card. Sure it's rare in PSA 8-10, but if you're buying the card for the number on the slab then IMO you are a collector of numbers and not cards. And strictly for the purpose of competition of which this hobby is not and should not be about.

If someone willing to pay a half a million dollars for an Andy Pafko card is the backbone of the hobby then we're in worse shape than I thought.