eBay sales baffle me...

[campyfan39]

There are alot of people like myself who like to buy pure cards, not graded ones. Sometimes I will buy a graded one if it is a great deal but I always bust it out

[FUBAR]

it only takes 2 people putting in a snipe to get a decent dollar for a card...

[Gr8Beldini]

Originally Posted by campyfan39

There are alot of people like myself who like to buy pure cards, not graded ones. Sometimes I will buy a graded one if it is a great deal but I always bust it out

I completely agree. There are a lot of deals to be had on undergraded 6's, 6.5's & 7's. I bought a bunch of 7's for my sharp 71 set. I thought the 7 assigned to each card was bonkers and ended up getting cards that I thought were clearly NM/MT for under book price (not SMR but regular Beckett). Crack them out of the case and put them in the binder with the rest of my spectacular set.

[ALR-bishop]

Originally Posted by campyfan39

There are alot of people like myself who like to buy pure cards, not graded ones. Sometimes I will buy a graded one if it is a great deal but I always bust it out

Me too. I have been collecting since 1957 and I display my sets in binders so graded cards don't work for me. I use a bolt cutter to free them. It works great in seconds. Freed a second 52 Campanella variation/defect ( discussed in another thread) yesterday.

[xdrx]

Just to double my confusion I finally signed up for a membership with PSA, and started browsing through the SMR price list. Some of those numbers seem absurd vs real world transactions.

It's funny, but when I first waded back in to this hobby and saw how grading and authenticating had become de riguer in many ways I felt like things were really much more regulated and controlled vs when I started out 30 years ago. Now, after a few months of reading and researching the opposite seems true. The whole grading things seems like a slimy sub-industry to me, which you have to embrace in many cases but certainly would be foolish to trust.