Quality vs. Quantity

[sesop]

in theory, i go with quality (not necessarily high-grade. i'll take low grade scarcity over high grade common anyday). in practice, i like winning auctions and getting packages in the mail too much, so i find myself with one foot in quality and one in quantity

[makersmarkambassador]

That's a tough decision. Glad I don't have to make it...

If I were to make it, I would go the quality route.

[Mark]

This thread suggests that there is a movement if not a flight to quality among many collectors. What do you suppose has brought this on? I ask this as someone who is firmly rooted in quantity.

[Leon]

It might be that the upper echelon has proven to hold it's value better. Regardless of what collectors say we don't want to buy a card (or trade) and have the value go down. There is a good market for lower grade items right now...but that same market was up about 50% or more a year or two ago and now, if you bought lower conditioned cards in that time frame, your values have gone down. I posed this same question when I very first started collecting and was buying my E102 Cobby. My decision was to collect nice cards that would present well but not necessarily high technical grades. I also chose not to collect sets as I like a wide variety of items (in my younger days it was girls....many of them too)......now, since I am happily married it's cards....and a wide variety of them. Good luck....