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T206Collector...with you Ted. I'd much rather have the 521 than just a few cards, and I will be headed back up that mountain ...eventually.
There are a lot of repeat stories on here. If I had a nickel for every time I wrote "professional grading is like a pyramid," I'd have enough for a cup of really good coffee. The Plank and my efforts to acquire it define everything about my unsigned collection, at least currently. Unfortunately for the regulars, most of the time that I relate to a thread about the Big 3 or 4, or strategies for collecting sets, it comes up. I am genuinely not trying to brag about it, but I am quite proud of it -- a fine line, I suppose.
I do want to mention also that I started my website shortly after I had my article on signed T206 cards significantly edited by Old Cardboard magazine. Rather than publish it in a way that I didn't really like, I decided to just post it on my website. Everything else just grew from that concept.
I think most of the negativism toward my website -- and perhaps by extension me -- arises from a discussion of a signed T206 Walter Johnson card that an ebay seller wanted to have shown on my website as a condition of an off-ebay sale. Obviously it's just a collector site, but I think some people took exception to the way that sale went down (or rather didn't go down) and to the notion that a posting on my meager website could possibly motivate a seller to sell a card of that magnitude. I didn't make the story up, but it caused some LMFAOs among the usual suspects.
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