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[barrysloate]

Well Jeff, I know it's not going to actually happen, but if you can learn to ride a bicycle, or learn to play chess, you can learn to grade a baseball card.

Maybe high grade high value cards should get a second opinion by a so-called expert...but I see so many low grade $20 cards in holders for I don't know what reason. Collectors get lazy and they want somebody else to do the work for them. Learning all aspects of the hobby is part of the fun, IMO.

[Ease]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

but I see so many low grade $20 cards in holders for I don't know what reason.

Here are a few reasons other than resale: set registries, protection, good looks. I do agree though, Barry, that learning to grade yr own cards is a very important skill to have and a fun process to learn. Funny how what I thought were near mint cards when i was 10 are psa 5 excellent cards today

[Jay Wolt]

Here are a few reasons other than resale: set registries, protection, good looks.

...and uniformity.
If one is collecting a 1933 Goudey set you would want more then just the Babe Ruth
& Lou Gehrig cards slabbed, many would want them all looking the same even if you don't
utilize PSA or SGC's registry.

[barrysloate]

Eric- I guess I've never understood the attraction of the registry. It just seems like a goofy concept to me. Sure, if you have the best set in the hobby I suppose that carries some weight. But who cares if you have the 14th best one? I know the registry is popular, I'm just not a fan.

[Ease]

Its just a way to show off your collection and "compete" with others I guess, similar to the pick-up thread here etc. I personally am not interested either, but some folks go gah-gah over jumping up/down in rank, to each his/her own...

[Leon]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Eric- I guess I've never understood the attraction of the registry. It just seems like a goofy concept to me. Sure, if you have the best set in the hobby I suppose that carries some weight. But who cares if you have the 14th best one? I know the registry is popular, I'm just not a fan.

Barry- Here is my take. Don't think of the registry as baseball card collecting. It isn't. It is a game unto itself. In those terms everything fits well. It's its own game. Very simple. Who can collect the highest number on their plastic wins!!

[HRBAKER]

I don't get the attraction either. Nor have I ever considered the Net54 Monthly Pick-Up thread a competition either. The hobby has passed me by.

[barrysloate]

Good take on it Leon. The way registry sets are collected really is a hobby of its own. And yes, some people do like to compete. When I collected it was a personal thing; I did it for my own enjoyment. I knew some people had a better collection than me, and mine was better than some others. I didn't think about it any more than that.

[J.McMurry]

Barry, I asked my pet unicorn about the possibility of people deciding now to simply grade their own cards; he agreed with you

lol, Jeff could you ask the unicorn to weigh in on the set registries and /or the economy turning around anytime soon?