What % of your collection is still raw?

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

I thought I had heard just about all there is to hear from the "paranoid" card
collectors out there that think Graded cards are the one and only way to collect.

But, this "b.....s" is too much.....I read your 1st post but dismissed it.
But, this latest post of yours, I cannot dismiss.....are you serious PC ?

If you are, then I only feel sorry for you......because you are not really enjoying
this hobby. Your rantings, just show me you are in it for "mercenary puposes" and
that is just sad.

And, who are you to tell a large number of us that our collections are in "dire" jeopardy
sometime in the far off future. You don't really know us and you have no right to judge
our collecting habits from your "narrow-minded" interests in this great hobby.

Furthermore, do you fashion yourself as some sort of "guru", who can predict where this
hobby will be in the future ?

Boy, if that is what you are banking on....it, too, is very sad and very risky. There are
a lot of us who enjoy our cards in the PRESENT.....we flip them over and read their backs.
We research our BB encyclopedia and various publications to further gain insight into the
ballplayers depicted on these cards.

And, if they just happen to increase in value as time goes on......then I look at that as
"icing on the cake". But, I certainly do not depend on my cards (whether Graded or Un-
graded....NrMt or Vg) to make me rich someday down the road.

T-Rex TED