Set Registry Should be for Card Collectors

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by mdschulze

If this were a forum about "how to divorce a crack head stripper"... then I would be the expert and I would have a lot more posts than what I do now.

Post of the Year candidate! Very nicely done!


Now, about registries... I have no idea how PSA works (or doesn't work), so anything I say pertains to SGC.

I did have several sets on the SGC registry (vintage basketball, not baseball.) When I decided to sell them through REA, I changed the name on the Registry to something like "REA Spring 2010, 1957 Topps Basketball Set." I did this, not REA. Was it advertising? Of course, but it was designed to market my sets. It was to alert other SGC Registry guys that these sets were coming to market in a few months. About a month before the auction, Brian noticed that several other people had done the same thing, with slight differences in how we named the sets. He offered to standardize them, and basically, turn control of these sets over to REA, if I wanted to. We checked with REA and they were fine with this. The subsequent owner/winning bidder will be able to do the same thing.

My motives were to maximize the sale price of the sets.
REA was not involved in this, at all, until the very end. They had no part in it and didn't really stand to benefit at all.
SGC was involved only to make it better for both me, and the next owner. They gained nothing else.

I consider myself a collector, first and foremost. Outside of that, I don't understand this thread at all. Whoever currently owns my set will either keep it together, and change the name if they want to, or will break it up, in which case, I guess SGC should delist it. But I certainly don't see this as one of the hobby's problems.