New PSA Terms & Conditions: Comp. Damages and Injunctive Relief for Card Doctoring

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Fred

Can you please elaborate.

I think most hobbyists like the slabs as much as investors. Hobbyists sell when they want to raise funds for something else, and having a commoditized slab is a huge advantage. Many registry types I would call hobbyists too, not investors.

[Fred]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

I think most hobbyists like the slabs as much as investors. Hobbyists sell when they want to raise funds for something else, and having a commoditized slab is a huge advantage. Many registry types I would call hobbyists too, not investors.

Form a collecting perspective, hobbyist don't have much of a choice in the matter when it comes to purchasing cards. If you want something and it's slabbed, then that's the choice you get.

You nailed it. It commoditized the hobby which may not have been advantageous to hobbyists on a budget and it opened up the hobby to gross manipulation.

I'm sure a lot of hobbyist do like the slabs but it came with a cost.