Just how much does condition affect value?

[mrvster]

condition rarely, if ever, matters to me....I actually hope that some of my examples are "beat up" a little, it keeps others away...or keep prices a little lower....a lot of my scrap are beat up, due to what they were considered back in the day "garbage" lol....the irony....

but, I collect T206 freaks/scraps or rarities....so the examples are usually one of a kinds, or very few examples known to exist....so , supply vs. demand is more of the factor...



There was a brown old mill that Dan McKee had on ebay for the longest time, a few years ago, with a buy it now of 5 k I think....I was thinking about pulling the trigger for a year( it had pen writing all over the back), but the cash was hard to get up, but more of the factor, I couldn't get over all the pen writing on the back, I figured id find a better example....well, its been about 4 or 5 years now......I should've gotten it then......the only time I really let condition bother me...

a few weeks ago, I traded a few cards for a blank back T206 moose grimshaw with writing on the back.....this is the only moose grimshaw blank back known to existT206......you bet I DID NOT let the writing on the back become the deal breaker this time, and I'm ecstatic