Have we begun to lose our way a bit?

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Posted By: David Vargha

Alright, here's how I see it . . . Some people feel they are being looked down upon by those with larger and more expensive collections. So they in turn look down upon those people. Some people feel others are too competitive and elitist, so they take an elitist stance about not being competitive. Some people are happy that their collections are worth alot more, but unhappy that cards cost more. Others long for the "good old days" when it was impossible to find things (no Internet) and the card you were looking for showed up in the SCD ad in the copy that you received two weeks late (and after the card had been sold). They are disappointed by the crass commercialism of the market today. Some people look down their noses at people who use grading services and still others think people who buy raw cards only are foolish and naïve. I have even heard of (gasp!) people who collect cards from the 60's and 70's (but these are only unsubstantiated rumors).

I say, it's only pieces of cardboard with no intrinsic value whatsoever. We all need to lighten up and realize that we aren't all clones of one another and respect other people's collecting values/preferences, whether we agree with them or not.

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