Most over-valued card

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by SMPEP

Every PSA 7, 8, 9 and 10 card.

I have no idea why buyers have allowed themselves to be duped by the sellers/dealers (who have a vested interest) into believing pristine looking cards are worth more money.

Either you have a 52 Mantle or you don't. It's a binary event. Having the "best looking 52 Mantle" (whatever that means to 2,000 different people) shouldn't command a premium of many multiples - if the market behaved rationally.

No one here would pay $10,000 for a "better" sandwich than the one that cost $15. Yet folks willingly over pay this for cardboard every single day.

But I'm glad all these people buy all these overpriced cards - because if they didn't, I wouldn't be able to have a collection in the first place.

Not to be a jerk, but a sandwich isn't a collectible. Condition has ALWAYS mattered in EVERY collectible market, coins, antiques, stamps, Tonka Trucks, whatever. While you may have a point to make about infinitesimal differences between 9's and 10's, calling 1952 Mantle ownership a binary event is a little out of touch with, well, the entire rest of the world.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

Not to be a jerk, but a sandwich isn't a collectible. Condition has ALWAYS mattered in EVERY collectible market, coins, antiques, stamps, Tonka Trucks, whatever. While you may have a point to make about infinitesimal differences between 9's and 10's, calling 1952 Mantle ownership a binary event is a little out of touch with, well, the entire rest of the world.

I am about to go collect either some hot wings or Chinese food. I won't collect it for long most likely ....(that made me laugh)

[ALR-bishop]

You guys who think food is not a collectible need to pay closer attention to what you are eating

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[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by Leon

I am about to go collect either some hot wings or Chinese food. I won't collect it for long most likely ....(that made me laugh)

Leon- regrettably, we are 'collecting' from the same places...and I see my collection every morning in the mirror- UGH!

CONDITION really DOES matter.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by Leon

I am about to go collect either some hot wings or Chinese food. I won't collect it for long most likely ....(that made me laugh)

those would be intestinal differences, not infinitesimal ones...

[Gary Dunaier]

Originally Posted by Leon

I am about to go collect either some hot wings or Chinese food. I won't collect it for long most likely ....(that made me laugh)

I doubt that people who buy souvenir beers or souvenir sodas at the ballpark actually keep 'em as souvenirs.


(Photo taken April 24, 2013. © Gary Dunaier. Link to upload on Flickr.com: here.)

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