Can I Get A Show' Of Hands!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted By: Brad

I'd like to know how many board members consider them selfs true collectors?

For example: "I only buy cards I need" (not buying cards for a fast investment)

Hmmmm....What do you consider a true collector?

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Posted By: barrysloate

Bored members?

As in "Bored of Education?"

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Posted By: Brad

barrysloate,

To bad your not getting payed for it!
Or is it you're???

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Posted By: barrysloate

"You're" is correct, and it's "paid."

That's actually an old joke- if you hate school you are bored of education.

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Posted By: Brad

You'll just have to bear with me poeple, I'm no Ernest Hemingway!

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Posted By: Wesley

Barry, I think you are going to have to work double time here after your auction is over.

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Posted By: peter chao

Sure I'm a true collector. For me collecting includes buying and trading for cards I need.

Peter

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Posted By: davidcycleback

Question: is collecting better than non-collecting?

A lot collectors overpay for crap they know little about. A lot of dealers (Lipset, Lifson, Sloate) are the hobby experts who the collectors turn to for info. Any 'true collector' who references Lipset's Encyclopedia of Baseball Cards is depending on information provided and produced by a dealer. And, without the loathsome sellers, I'm curious to know how the true collectors would obtain their cards.

I have nothing against buying without selling. I admire those who do it and do agree the practice's supporters that it has a kind of purity to it. However, I don't find inferior someone selling dupes or reselling to raise funds for another purchase inferior or holding an honest auction of authentic material. In fact, my opinion is that honest and learned dealers and auctioneers are the most valuable to the hobby, as they are the ones disseminating the material to the collectors. And it is the dishonest sellers who do the most harm.

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Posted By: barrysloate

There are so many different ways people collect that it would be almost impossible to define a true collector. Even the most dedicated one sells some things once in a while. If you love collecting, you're a collector.

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Posted By: rand

Good question...i think in todays market its difficult not to intermingle both, i think its a natural part of the hobby to try to obtain cards under market value or buy a group of cards and sell off the extras to pay for the ones you need. Investment almost happens immediately as the value of the cards keep going up. The grading game has significantly changed the hobby as the price scale for every grade level is available, versus the old days where cards were basically either NM,VG, or Poor and left up to the dealers for their perspective of mint.

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Posted By: Randy Trierweiler

100% Pure collector here. I've acquired 22,565 different post war cards, 7890 different minor league cards and now a couple hundred vintage cards, every one of them a St. Louis Cardinal.
Hi Frank.

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Posted By: Bob Pomilla

"I'd like to know how many board members consider them selfs true collectors?"

Well, I only buy, not sell, cards, so in that sense I suppose I'm a "true" collector. Certainly not in an arrogant sense, though.

"For example: "I only buy cards I need" (not buying cards for a fast investment)"

Don't know that I "need" any cards (though a psychiatrist might have some opinions on that), but I sure want them.

"You'll just have to bear with me poeple, I'm no Ernest Hemingway!"

Are Poeples devotees of Edgar Allen?

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Posted By: Steve f

Well, we're collectors. We, uh, see objects of great beauty and, uh, we
must have them.

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Posted By: barrysloate

I didn't think there were any cool guys in Queens.

There are now!

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Posted By: peter chao

Sounds like you're a Cardinals fan and a true collector. Besides you know the no. of cards you have. I lost count a long time ago.

Peter