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Old 09-11-2015, 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by GasHouseGang View Post
A friend of mine in the hobby decided to put together a 1933 Goudey set. He further decided to make it a strict PSA 6 set. Which meant sometimes buying SGC graded cards and paying for a cross over. By the time he was finished he had right around $80K into it. It was a beautiful set. He finally decided to sell it through an auction house, which sold it as a set. It ended up selling for around $50K! I felt so bad for him.
This doesn't surprise me one bit. When you decide to go strict one TPG/one grade, you're really backing yourself into a corner and it's going to cost you (and most likely big time) in the end.
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