drawing the line?

[whelenfan]

well, thank you for that!!! I don't feel so bad then. Honestly, those two don't look bad to me, LOL!!!

[bbcard1]

I did a front set of T205s. They are largely horrible and many are skins, but they were my first vintage set achievement, so to speak.

Here is a little website/blog i did about the project.

http://www.bbcard1.com/205/

[dabigyankeeman]

Sometimes for me its worth it on expensive cards to accept pieces missing. I have a 33 Goudey Babe Ruth with the bottom part that says "Big League Chewing Gum" cut off, and i have a 34 Goudey Lou Gehrig with the corners cut off caddy-corner, all 4 of them. But I wont buy inexpensive cards that are like this. However lessor cards that have many creases can be fine, just dont want pieces missing.

I started collecting with the theory of "as long as i have the card i dont care about condition" and i bought a ton of bad cards with big creases and other defects. But after a couple of decades, i wound up up-grading a lot of them. My upgrades though still most of the time were not to cards in perfect condition, but rather to cards with small defects that didnt bother me. But still, i do feel its better to own a card in any condition than to not own it at all.

[Cozumeleno]

I'm perfectly fine with beaters like that when working on a set, to be honest. I'd rather have that card than no card at all and not being picky helps to complete sets at a much faster rate. It's not ideal, but it's better than nothing, in my opinion.

The thing to remember is that you can always upgrade later. I've upgraded about 100 cards in my T206 set. As long as you're not overpaying for a beater, you'll be fine because there are always people looking for them.

[buymycards]

With the sets that I collect, I feel fortunate to be able to fill a hole in my collection, even if it means that I have some real dogs.

[kmac32]

I have 1 card like you say missing chunk. Only reason I took it was it was a piedmont 42 which are relatively rare and it came with another group of cards. If it were an easy card then I would not have bought it.

[Bill77]

If my Peaches Graham card had almost any other back I would not have bought it.