It's all about the registry

[samosa4u]

That's messed up ...

[bmattioli]

The obsession to own a "10" is becoming crazy. Why??

[tjisonline]

Imagine being enough of a moron to pay $33k for a PSA label in plastic w/ a “near mint” card in it. Pathetic and embarrassing.

[Kutcher55]

Two rich knuckle heads.

[B O'Brien]

I guess I might as well dig through the sets to see if there is a sharp common floating around the albums!
Bob

[BioCRN]

During COVID the 1975 set got red f'n hot. There were absolutely some new collectors with $$ putting this one together with PSA graded examples.

I sold some PSA 8's and 9's commons for rather insane amounts, outpacing other 70s sets. Prices have come down greatly since then, but some 9's and 10's are still cruising.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by tjisonline

Imagine being enough of a moron to pay $33k for a PSA label in plastic w/ a “near mint” card in it. Pathetic and embarrassing.

Originally Posted by cllct

Well, PSA ranks the best sets by condition, and set collectors battle over supremacy. Buying the common cards in 10s, especially if they are scarce, can help win the game.

PSA created slabbing. The company then followed it up with the Registry. Strokes of genius both quite simply because:

Originally Posted by H.L. Mencken

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people People can easily be persuaded to accept the most inferior ideas or useless products.

[brunswickreeves]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

PSA created slabbing. The company then followed it up with the Registry. Strokes of genius both quite simply because:

Bottled water? The world’s most abundant resource-come on now!

[Kutcher55]

That 75 set is so beloved. The sparring for regular and mini PSA 9s and 10s has been quite heated for a while now, and both sets are notorious for qc issues, every kind imaginable. I can only imagine what the factory floor was like at Topps in the 70s. There must be pics out there. And the cardstock they used back then was awful. Not super thin like late 80s Donruss but the veneers just didn’t hold together very well. It would be cool if a vlogger scientist type disassembled commons from different topps years and analyzed the chemical composition of the card stock. Well I’d like watching it anyways.

Also you’ll note that’s an older slab. Both PSA and SGC just don’t really hand out 10s anymore to cards in the 70s. If you look at every 9 and 10 from this era I suspect the vast majority of them were slabbed before the Covid boom. That Dave Roberts 10 would be a 9 on a regrade. Of course you could say the same for almost any 10 out there.

Also some guy just paid $6M for a banana taped to a wall. The Crypto bros are flush these days.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by brunswickreeves

Bottled water? The world’s most abundant resource-come on now!

I could nitpick and say that would be air, but nonetheless that's a fabulous example indeed! I wonder how many of the people buying bottled water also claim to be environmentally conscious?

[toledo_mudhen]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

I could nitpick and say that would be air, but nonetheless that's a fabulous example indeed! I wonder how many of the people buying bottled water also claim to be environmentally conscious?

I drink only bottled water - even my dogs drink bottled water.

Environmentally Conscious? - Not a thing for me...........

[BioCRN]

Originally Posted by bmattioli

The obsession to own a "10" is becoming crazy. Why??

I have a graded notables/stars/HOF Cubs collection and I'm out there happily snapping up 8's of autos and rare(ish) variations for next to nothing.

Except for players I'm excited about, I just need a card for the collection.

The newer collectors and some people that only want the high-end treat 8's like they're trash and in many cases they can go for the price of the raw version. Go figure...card still looks amazing.

[swarmee]

Not well researched (or edited?).

After 1980, no baseball set has had fewer than 10% grade out as PSA 10s.

https://www.psacard.com/pop/baseball...-reserve/50958 Here is a set from 2001 Topps that has had 25,000 cards graded with only 44 PSA 10s, and the kicker is, that these cards were slabbed right after the cards were printed.


2001 Topps Reserve - [Base] - Graded Autographed Rookie #103 - Albert Pujols /1500 [PSA 8 NM‑MT]
Courtesy of COMC.com

Did they mean Topps flagship base sets? Maybe. That's not what they wrote.