Are We Slaves To The Registry?

[Leon]

Net54 banned from the internet? Interesting concept. Sometimes I think about what would happen if I just deleted the board. It is a 1 click function in the admin. Poof.

[commishbob]

Originally Posted by leon

net54 banned from the internet? Interesting concept. Sometimes i think about what would happen if i just deleted the board. It is a 1 click function in the admin. Poof.

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[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Leon

Net54 banned from the internet? Interesting concept. Sometimes I think about what would happen if I just deleted the board. It is a 1 click function in the admin. Poof.

I double dog dare you.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

I double dog dare you.

Well, it won't happen but if it was done how could you respond?

And I think Frank asked too many "what if's".

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[egri]

Originally Posted by Leon

Well, it won't happen but if it was done how could you respond? :eek

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I think Edvard Munch captured the reaction of most of the board...

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by Leon

Well, it won't happen but if it was done how could you respond?

And I think Frank asked too many "what if's".

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Just a menu Leon, so members only have to decide which question to answer, rather than what question to ask.

[brianp-beme]

We maybe, me no (answer to subject line question).

Brian

[Leon]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

Just a menu Leon, so members only have to decide which question to answer, rather than what question to ask.

I was only joking. Sorry to derail your thread.



What if the PSA Registry did not exist? The world would still be here.

What if Pop reports did not exist? See #1

What if TPGs did not exist? See #1

What if VCP did not exist? See #1

What if eBay allowed only 99 cent opening bid auctions without BINs?
See #1

What if high end cards didn't cost so much? Would less nefarious and fraudulent behavior be attracted to the hobby?
no

Are current products dependent on manufactured scarcity to survive? What if there were no current products? Would the vintage market be adversely affected?
See #1

What if auction houses didn't sugar coat their "lots" with flowery descriptions and just laid them out like a flea market?
See #1

What if all cards did not have borders? Would centering fanatics go insane?
yes

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[Mark]

It would be a lot like 1990. Except with eBay instead of the SCD -- and also except for the part where someone (aliens?) trim the borders from all cards. It was OK, but I was operating in the dark much of the time.

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by Mark

It would be a lot like 1990. Except with eBay instead of the SCD -- and also except for the part where someone (aliens?) trim the borders from all cards. It was OK, but I was operating in the dark much of the time.

True, and certainly much of what has happened in the last thirty years has gotten the hobby to its current state. But to be clear, the questions are a menu. In a restaurant you rarely order everything on the menu, and on this thread you need not answer all the questions and come up with a unifying concept.

For example, for those of us who eschew the registry and its impact on pricing the answer to the title question is “no” as we are not slaves.

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My problem with pop reports are the plethora of ways that the information may be totally inaccurate, leading to incorrect assumptions regarding rarity.

[trdcrdkid]

[Fred]

Originally Posted by Leon

Well, it won't happen but if it was done how could you respond?

And I think Frank asked too many "what if's".

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How would I respond? After one month - "Leon who....?"

Now about all those "what if's?"

TPG + Registry + Pop reports have all contributed to this hobby getting a bit whacky. Are they negatives? That depends on your interest in the hobby. For a lot of collectors it's just increased the price of card board. For others it has increased the value of their "card board portfolios".

[drcy]

Was listening to this crust classic just thing morning.

Slave, slave, slave
From the cradle to the grave
You made yourself the system's slave

Amebix- Slave

[Gradedcardman]

Originally Posted by Leon

Well, it won't happen but if it was done how could you respond?

And I think Frank asked too many "what if's".

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Amen