Posted By:
Al C.risafulliI'm not a fan of posting private emails on a public board, regardless of their content.
As far as the "show us your high-grade XXX" posts are concerned, I see no difference between those posts and the "Show us your Matty"-type posts that pop up on the board every day. If there's a "Show Us Your N162s" thread that pops up, and I don't have any, I don't get upset. Similarly, I don't have any cards that I could share in any of the "high grade" threads that have popped up lately - that doesn't mean I don't enjoy seeing the cards, though. It reminds me of the occasional scans that Marshall Fogel gives to Leon to post - Marshall doesn't contribute to the board, but man, it's awesome to see his cards once in a while. They're nice examples of cards I don't have, and being a lover of baseball cards, I do love to see them. In the case of these recent threads, they don't really belong in the "new pickup" threads, because they're not new pickups - just new scans that haven't been shared here before.
People used to get on Jim for not ever sharing scans of his cards - now that he's doing that, I think it's really cool to see some of the things he's got.
Just my opinion, which is worth exactly what you paid for it.
-Al