Does anyone collect raw cards exclusively in this age of TPG???

[SmokyBurgess]

I primary loved and collected cards not entombing the player...until recently...as I just like baseball types now, will get graded examples because of the altering, fraud, deception going on.

Peace of mind.

[brianp-beme]

I went 24 years of collecting vintage without ever owning a single graded card, and still 95% of what I pick up now is raw. Of course it helps that I have low standards.

Brian

[KCRfan1]

I always try to buy raw. I can usually find nicer cards at better prices than graded examples.

[conor912]

Often times I can't even find what I'm looking for raw.

[ALR-bishop]

My cards are not "raw". They are cards in their natural state...

[bbcard1]

Call me a cracker unless I am buying for resale.

[Bocabirdman]

Only recently, I have began to accept slabs into my collection. I had found that the remaining T206 are becoming much more difficult to find raw in a suitable condition. I prefer raw but I had to accept a dose of reality. Out of the first 270 cards , I had 3 slabs. I just passed 300 cards and I have added 20 slabs. I still MIGHT liberate them. I dunno........

[Matthew H]

Originally Posted by bbcard1

Call me a cracker unless I am buying for resale.

+1. I have 9 cards still in slabs because they never made it into my collection. I can't wait to get rid of them.

If I had a t206 card graded PSA 8 I would leave it in the holder, but I'll never buy one that high grade, I just don't trust grading at all. I have one old judge that is near mint, but I bought it raw so it gets to stay that way.. If I had a graded 8 old judge and I wanted to keep it, I'd probably end up cracking it, so that I can look at the edges.

[DHogan]

I'm a set builder. My cards for sets are all raw. For my player (Hogan) collection, most are raw. I buy the card. Not the grade or holder. Now that I have a great job. I can buy more.

[auggiedoggy]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

My cads are not "raw". They are cards in their natural state...

Yes they are but "raw" is now a commonly used expression. Before TPG, cards were simply cards.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

My cards are not "raw". They are cards in their natural state...

As are mine.


I'm quite handy with a kitchen knife when it comes to removing cards from those plastic cases that the people who get paid for their opinions provide.

Doug

[jerseygary]

When I pick up cards I only buy them unslabbed. I figure if I need to have someone else tell me what it is, what condition it is in and if it even real then I shouldn't be collecting what ever it is. Kind of takes the fun out of it for me. "Fun" is the word here because I tend to only collect for the fun of it. I think the slabs are very ugly and the labels are too "computer-y" for my taste. To me there's nothing as pretty as a free and easy loose stack of '33 Goudeys' sitting on my drawing table!

[tedzan]

This display tells you where I stand on this subject.

I just love to flip thru my albums of card sets contained within quality plastic pages. And for my high value cards,
I prefer high quality mylar, instead of hard plastic rectangles with arbitrary numbers that may not actually reflect
the card's grade.






TED Z
__________________________________________________ ______________________

LOOKING FOR these T206 guys to complete my AMERICAN BEAUTY 460 sub-set

AMES....CAMNITZ....CRAWFORD (bat)....DOYLE (port)....JORDAN (bat)....MARQUARD
McGRAW (port-cap).....McQUILLAN (bat).....TINKER (bat off).....WILTSE (port-cap)

[kmac32]

My W572 collection is completely raw while my E121, T 207 Cubs, and various Elmer Miller cards are slabbed.

[aelefson]

I have no graded cards. I will not even look at graded cards for sale.

Alan

[WWGjohn]

My whole collection is unslabbed with just a few graded when I could not find anything else. Like many others I'm a set collector and unslabbed is the only way I casn come close to a complete set.

John

[VintageGamerN00b]

I'm putting together a '59 Topps set as a gift for my dad and am presenting it in custom binders. Unslabbed cards are so much prettier than PSA graded ones, in my opinion. I'm not necessarily opposed to graded cards if I'm collecting to resell, but for vintage cards that will stay in my collection (or that of someone I know), I only buy ungraded.

I would imagine the majority of the forum members here share this view, especially because many of them are as good as or better than the graders and would never pay $15 to be told something they already know.

[travrosty]

There is no such thing as raw. They are baseball cards.

[g_vezina_c55]

For my T206 set i collect almost only raw cards. I buy graded card only when it is for the high valuable cards.