Question about Grading

[midwaylandscaping]

Originally Posted by travrosty

why do you need it at the same grade? its exactly the same card no matter what 'number' they give it.

are you collecting cards or collecting numbers? i have the number 5 for sale at a 20% discount and it is graded a Cobb.

the numbers don't mean anything. the card is going to be in the exact same shape is was previously. It's called CARD collecting.

For my personal collection, I follow this line of thinking myself. I do admit to being sucked into the graded card game a lot more the last year and a half though. If it's a card that I have marked for trade/sale in the future, almost have to pursue graded cards.
Becomes a money thing

[toledo_mudhen]

I like the uniformity of having ALL cards in a particular set slabbed by the same TPG. For most people I would say money does come in to play somewhere along the line. If you are "well heeled" purist than probably not so much. For the rest of us tho - I would prefer to know exactly what I have (as verified by TPG) just in case I ever need/want to market the little cardboard pictures of baseball men.