If this were the stockmarket..............

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

A stock market usually deals in publicly held negotiable instrucments. The tougher cards (high graded included) seem to be more "privately" held companies/stocks.

I like the irrational train of thought and the nervousness of the people with pop (1) PSA8 cards. It's absolutely hilarious to me. Someone pays $6000 for a pop (1) card only to see three more come available or worse yet, the crowning of a new king pop (1) PSA9 card.

I suppose a lot of people could be making a stink in an effort to scare the grading companies away from grading higher graded cards (or at least scrutinizing them better) and also to put the auction houses on notice that "altering cards aint cool" (because it's wrong) and because populating the population reports with more PSA8 cards will diminish the value of the existing PSA8 cards.

Maybe the next collecting niche will be to find OVERSIZED cards...

Personally, I could care less if the whole (excuse the pun) house of cards market fell flat on it's face. I would like that more than anything - get rid of the speculators and get the cards back into the hands of the people that enjoy these things for what they are.... where are Karl Marx and Frederick Ingalls when you need them?