What type of member/collector are you?

[Clutch-Hitter]

I'm an Articulator.

[champaigneappetite]

Drifting Bottom Feeder, with delusions of grandeur!

Fun thread!!

[Bosox Blair]

Originally Posted by Bosox Blair

Good one, Arnie - I am also an "ADDER" by your definition (which I think is a good descriptive category).

Cheers,
Blair

After consultation with Frank I have determined that I am a "Drifting Hoarder" in his classification system.

Cheers,
Blair

[Bocabirdman]

Originally Posted by Bosox Blair

After consultation with Frank I have determined that I am a "Drifting Hoarder" in his classification system.

Cheers,
Blair

Does your insurance cover such consultations? Have you met your 2013 deductable yet?

[Bosox Blair]

Originally Posted by Bocabirdman

Does your insurance cover such consultations? Have you met your 2013 deductable yet?

[Bocabirdman]

Originally Posted by Bosox Blair

Afterall, Frank is a Specialist..... or wait, maybe he's on a special list, I forget which.

[EGreenwood]

I am a hybrid - a drifter with bottom feeder tendencies

[WWGjohn]

Hoarder and Bottom Feeder

John

[jlehma13]

Definite bottom feeder. There's something that I really enjoy about a ratty
t206. Says the same guy who enjoys the unrestored class at car shows. It namely means I don't have the funds for graded cards or a restored car.

[itjclarke]

Absolute Hoarder with a tendancy to Wander around looking for anything I like.

[tonyo]

Bottom Feeding Drifter who Churns Crackers

The Drifter - Has focused goals that once met may refocus in a new goal resulting in the disposition of the old goal .

The Churner - addicts with some level of budgetary constraint ................. collectors who frequently buy high and sell low.

The Bottom Feeder - whose best card is only slightly better than his worst, Fills empty binder sleeves faster than a locomotive to complete sets .

The Cracker - self-described liberator of cards entombed in plastic cases designed for their preservation. Also known as The Feeler

[Bocabirdman]

Another day dawns without a Hard Core Soul Sucker stepping forward. I guess that is to be expected. They spend all night praying the castle walls hold against the villagers with their torches and pitchforks. With the new day, they retreat to their coffins to avoid the sunlight.

[frankbmd]

Bottom Feeders of the World unite. You have nothing to lose but your cards, and they're not worth that much anyway. Thanks for stepping forward after the creation of your true category, which was shamefully neglected in the original list. The Elitists can run, but they can't hide. We know where you live, that big house on the hill.

"Know thyself".

I am a strip card collector; bottom feeder with hoarder tendencies.

[Bocabirdman]

Originally Posted by pariah1107

"Know thyself".

I am a strip card collector; bottom feeder with hoarder tendencies.

When I got back into the hobby a couple years ago, I considered being a strip card collector until I looked in the mirror and realized that taking my clothes off wouldn't help at this stage of life

[toppcat]

Drifter/Cracker

I think you forgot a category-The Historian, which I wager a large number of people responding would add to their titles.

[Wymers Auction]

I am an auctioneer. I say that with a bit of caution and terror!!!

[Shoele$$]

Originally Posted by Cubs1969

None of the above. I collect for the chicks. Nothing turns women on more than when you tell em you collect old baseball cards!

I mean how could they resist?.....

[cyseymour]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

Bottom Feeders of the World unite. The Elitists can run, but they can't hide. We know where you live, that big house on the hill.

I am an Elitist.



Thanks for looking.

[Spiegel83]

I am definitely a newbie. Just trying to gather as much info as possible from these boards. I also enjoy checking out lots of scans to see what cards/sets that are most interesting to me.

[Bocabirdman]

Originally Posted by Spiegel83

I am definitely a newbie. Just trying to gather as much info as possible from these boards. I also enjoy checking out lots of scans to see what cards/sets that are most interesting to me.

Welcome to the board. There are plenty of guys here that will show you all the scans you can handle, for sure. Beware, this place is highly addictive with no known cure.

[frankbmd]

I realize that I have become a churning upgrader, which is a hybrid not in the first post.

If you are a Churning Upgrader, it's time to admit it.

Come clean.

[TAVG]

bottom feeder

90% of my stuff is low end, however, I do have a couple of nice cards (to me they are nice)

but I know there is now way I'll be able to afford most of the stuff I've seen posted on these forums.

[egri]

I am a newbie/churner, although I guess the first one will wear off after a while. Frank, I noticed you didn't have a category for people whose single-minded focus on one project drives all other collecting thoughts from their mind, which more or less describes me. Is that because the associated therapy costs are too high to contemplate?

[Louieman]

Is there such a thing as an "Elitist Bottom Feeder?" Only low end stuff, but the best looking of the low end, and only if I've scrutinized the hell out of it to the point that I find it justified to have...but again only with low end

[pencil1974]

Investor/Drifter.

Try to keep the ones I like but then sell many of the ones that don't fit into what I think I'm collecting at the time. Have a huge pile of 1800's-1940's that don't say Ruth so I end up selling those but can't let all of them go for some reason. But will sell anything to buy the whales on my list.

[mrmopar]

I suppose the three that best describe my collecting interests are Hoarder, Drifter and possibly Hobby Investor to some extent.

[kmac32]

Hoarder elitist sniper about covers it for me.

[ALR-bishop]

A Hereafter Hoarder.

[Hot Springs Bathers]

I am a perpetually confused hoarder-drifter. There should be some type of treatment facility for this condition.

[Chris Counts]

This isn't the first time I've been called a Cracker.

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

Adventurer

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[pokerplyr80]

Originally Posted by mrmopar

I suppose the three that best describe my collecting interests are Hoarder, Drifter and possibly Hobby Investor to some extent.

These are the three I was going to go with as well, although not a true hoarder as I have sold a couple of cards to fund other purchases.

I have yet to achieve a long term collecting goal that I've set for myself, although I do intend to complete my Mantle run one of these days, or years.

[hangman62]

Oh that's very good Frank !!

bottom Feeder

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

I realize that I have become a churning upgrader, which is a hybrid not in the first post.

If you are a Churning Upgrader, it's time to admit it.

Come clean.

Rather lame, reviving your own nearly three year old thread.

[JustinD]

No question...hoarder.

The only thing that could separate me from my cards was a two year cancer fight and having to clean most of the collection bare to supplement my disability check.

Now just getting it all back bigger and better than before.

Although I have to admit I love being "the sniper" too.

[tombocombo]

dealer/collector with particular focus on the 1952 topps issue

[drmondobueno]

but I forgot, and have been confused about what I am collecting after moving my monster collection somewhere, and canning peppers all week, so

I am an alzheimic procrastinatification peptic drifter, or is it... No wait, what was I doing? Oh yeah, Michigan just fumbled or something, and lost....unh...1965 Topps?

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Rather lame, reviving your own nearly three year old thread.

It would seem to be a minority (of 1) opinion, but free speech is important, even yours.

[Enfuego]

I consider myself a drifter in training

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

It would seem to be a minority (of 1) opinion, but free speech is important, even yours.

Attention wh*&e!!

[ullmandds]

I was a type collector...then a set collector...now I'm mainly a ruth/cobb/louisianian/yankees/yankee stadium postcard/n43/miller collector...with one foot out the door!!!!

As far as a net54 member...I'm a bit of a wise guy...who doesn't contribute much!

[EldoEsq]

I am a hoarder....you can't be a hoarder hybrid...hoarders NEVER SELL ANYTHING!!!!

I used to be probably 5 of the choices, selling, flipping, changing interests...one thing I learned is that my collecting choices change every couple of years, and I regretted many of my sales as my taste would change back. I would now be paying 2x-3x for cards I used to own!!!!

NEVER SELL ANYTHING!!!!

[RTK]

I would say hoarder but small time.

[sreader3]

The Researcher -- Wants to know everything about sets he presently collects -- production/distribution history, relative scarcity of fronts/backs, variations, pricing, etc. -- to the point where acquiring the cards is secondary to acquiring information about the cards.

[trdcrdkid]

Like some others here, I'm a combination of the Hoarder and the Hobby Investor, with a bit of the Drifter mixed in. I have various hobby interests, of which I tend to focus on one or two at a time, but I seldom complete a goal before shifting to something else, and I never totally abandon a collecting interest. This goes for trade cards and nonsport tobacco cards as well as baseball cards.

[Bocabirdman]

Originally Posted by Hot Springs Bathers

I am a perpetually confused hoarder-drifter. There should be some type of treatment facility for this condition.

There is!! ....... Net 54

[LuckyLarry]

Proud "Bottom Feeder" since 1991

Larry

[shernan30]

Well, I'm a combination of a Hoarder, Drifter, and Churner. Although the Drifter side of me is starting to move away. Its taken some time to get my bearing on what I'd like to see out of my collection. I'd say I'm there with my Columbus set, but may be adding a Youngstown set to that very soon.

As a Hoarder I have a very hard time selling anything even if its not a part of my active set lists. As a Churner I do find myself moving some cards to cover the hole I put in the bank account because of emotional acquisitions. There are at least 2 Net54 members that I seem to always buy from even if my budget say NOOOO MORE this month .

[Paul S]

Ex-Collector here, for all the reasons cited and a few more. One day, when I am pared down and hopefully a bit more solvent, I hope to again buy a few when my Ex brother-in-law straightens-up with me...........he's a hunchback.