Help me decide.

[BobC]

Originally Posted by raulus

I think we are all so used to our own process for evaluating getting items graded that the entire concept being proposed here has thrown us incredibly off kilter.

I look at this grouping and don’t see any real reason to prefer any one over any others. Some look interesting and cool. Maybe those ones! Others seem like they are in a little better condition. Maybe those ones!!

I think if you were expecting a lot of insights, wild stories, and fist fights over the top 10, then we have obviously failed to deliver. But maybe next time you ask, we’ll be less disappointing overall.

Might have been easier to just ask us which ones we liked the best, and leave the grading element out of the calculus entirely.

Nic,

No one was being disappointing to this guy, we were trying to give him honest, good advice based on his original question of which 10 cards should he get graded. He didn't say anything in that initial post about possibly providing stories and such for why we might pick a certain card, or that grading really wasn't important at all apparently. If he had posted what he said in posts #25 and #31 of this thread in post #1 instead, we probably aren't having this conversation because then we would have known from the beginning what he was really asking about and wanted. The error was not in the way people initially responded to his post and question, it was in the way he phrased and asked his question. And the fact that pretty much everyone responding read and interpreted it the exact same way tells you that the OP did not do a very good job of presenting and clearly asking the actual question he intended to.

I'm not disparaging anyone, as this was apparently a misunderstanding of what the OP wanted, brought on by the way he initially posed his question. What does bother me though is the way some people will react and respond back when you then raise and ask questions about what is going on when trying to figure out what it was that the OP really did want to know. The smart-ass and condescending comments actually reflect back on the people making them. Like instead of making fun and comments about how over 95% of the people in a particular thread aren't properly responding to an OP's question, an intelligent and mature person would probably be thinking, "Hey, if that many people aren't getting it, maybe they aren't the problem after all." At least you would think/hope so, right?

None of us (at least to my knowledge) can read minds and could therefore really tell what the OP actually wanted to know from his original question, and as a result, none of those disparaging remarks from others are deserving or called for. There's no disappointment or anything else you need to be apologizing for on everyone's behalf Nic.