Buy the card, not the label

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Originally Posted by YankeeCollector

Paying 20k for a 1979 card is flat out dumb!!

Ironically, some people would say the same exact thing about a collector buying a PSA 8 version of the card for $100... "Paying $100 for a 1979 card is flat out dumb!!" The same might be said about a collector paying $10K+ for an example from a rare 19th century set (eg. Just So or Kalamazoo Bats), although that would be perfectly sane to most folks here. It's all relative.

I think it's good to know, in my opinion, that some collectors out there enjoy card collecting enough to spend $20K on an Ozzie RC from 1979. It can be a waste of time to criticize a fellow collector about the items he spends his money on, or the amount he spends., because at the end of the day we're all pretty dumb for spending cash on old pieces of cardboard that have no intrinsic value.