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Posted By: joe brennan

I am taking a new direction. No longer will I fret that I cannot afford the PSA 8's, 9's and 10. I'm reverting back to my 3rd childhood. Collecting cards and not condition. If my neighbor bought a $120,000 sports car, would I try to 1 up him and get one for $130,000? I couldn't compete on that level even if I wanted to. Same goes for sets consisting of all PSA 9's and 10's, with commons reaching $1k for a 5 cent card. I'm going back to collecting raw sets in decent condition. Back to what we did as kids. Back to when it was fun to have the card. Back to when we knew nothing about the miniscule difference between an 8 and a 10. Back to when it was fun to look through binders of players from my childhood. I will make an exeption and continue to put together my set of graded T206's. One because I know they are real and unaltered and 2 because I am assured no damage will come to them. I will continue to look for cards with eye appeal regardless of grade. This Bender is a good example.It is a PSA 1. Sorry if I got off topic a bit, but it does bring out another class of collector, so it is still of the topic, sort of .

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