Curious observation- cards that stick

[teetwoohsix]

This is a great thread and I seem to have a problem-my cards are stuck.

When I decided to focus on T206 only (because I like them the best) it really was no problem for me to trade off my other types (even though I really liked them). This is not the case for me with T206's for some reason.......

I try to toy with the idea of trading cards (T206's for other T206's) but for some damn reason I can't seem to bring myself to do it . Even with cards that "aren't all that", you know, commons I know I can get another of with no problem....

I don't know if it's because I only pick up one, two, maybe three here and there, and I become attached to "THIS" particular card, or what- or it's the time and patience I've put into getting where I'm at now- I don't know.

Anyone else have this problem?

Sincerely, Clayton

[abothebear]

"Using what you are saying, you think it is the chase and not the conquest that cause people to sell their cards soon after they have acquired them?"

Yeah, more or less. The conquest is the essential, but it is not the card, but the emotional high of the victory that is really the goal. All subconsciously, of course.

Then add in factors like the nature of competition in auction buying (I am more likely to be interested in bidding on an item that has 2 bids than one that has no bids. Part of competition is wanting to prove oneself against another, but another part is having the outside validation that the object of pursuit is desirable). Again, subconsciously.

Also, I wonder if another factor is that scans often look better than cards in hand. So there can be buyer's remorse, even with a great card, because it doesn't match up to what you thought when you bought it.

The self-test I devised to see if I was buying strictly emotionally is to ask myself if I would BIN for the same price. Or I ask myself if I would bid now if I knew the same card would be available at the same price next week, or next month. Then I can know that I either escaped future regret, or I know that this one is a keeper.

[Jaybird]

Sometimes I can't tell if it is a keeper or not until I have it in hand. I want it and get it and then if something else comes along, I jump at that and feel like it makes sense to move another card to make room (monetarily mostly).

Also, as a newly converted type collector, I can buy a type card which fills a slot for that particular set, but then another comes along which I feel would be a better example.

For example, I had a few E92 Crofts CAndy cards but when the miscut Dougherty came around, it had the color and uniqueness to just grab my interest. So, out go the others that I had.

That "uniqueness" is what makes a keeper for me. I think it would be hard to part with anything that I don't think I could get my hands on again.