SGC'S Aggressive Upcharges

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

BF, you can make up your own mind; everyone is entitled to collect in whatever way they want. This hobby has room for all of it.

Yes, I agree.

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Lemme clue you in, pal....

Well if we're both agreed that I can make up my own mind, why are you suggesting that I need to be "clued in"? That doesn't make sense.

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

...not liking slabbed cards doesn't make you a more pious, pure, true collector than the guys who have a box full of slabs.

I neither said nor implied any such thing.

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

There are people, believe it or not, who enjoy the hobby by collecting graded cards, and are just as passionate and involved with their collections as you appear to be with yours.

Oh probably. But since we've already agreed that everyone can make up their own mind and "everyone is entitled to collect in whatever way they want", neither of us can speak for anyone else let alone address their level of passion.

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

But the issue we are discussing here is not your personal philosophy of collecting: if you don't want to collect graded cards, knock yourself out.

If it's all right with you, I'd rather stay conscious and alert.

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Instead, you come into a thread about grading company charging practices and crap all over the grading process itself and the people who use grading services.

I said that SGC was only charging what the market would bear and I didn't understand why the people who didn't like SGC's prices didn't just say "No!" That's basically just a common sense remark. As such that's not "crapping" on anybody.

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

You've been here all of five minutes....

Well yeah, but I have been posting rather actively on many and varied discussion forums since 2001 including the CGC comic board since 2005 (under a different name) and this board's Net54 Hockey and Non-Sport sister boards since 2011.

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

how about a little respect for your fellow collectors who may not see things the way you do?

Speaking of respecting fellow collectors, let me point out that you're the one who characterized a fellow poster (me) as "pious" and my comments as "narrow-minded" and "self-righteous". I've not (yet) said anything of that sort about you or anyone else on this board.

But simply expressing opinions that might not be shared by the majority of other board members here can hardly be classified as "disrespectful".