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Brian K. HodesThe other day I checked out the PSA set registry stuff just to see what all of the noise was about. While did like looking at many of the cards (Hal's HOF collection is neat) I think that the net effect of these registries is that they foster a certain competition that I could definitely do without. This is particularly evident with the 1950's and early 60's sets but I think it may be creeping into our vintage domain as well.
What happens is not just that collectors want sets or even nice sets they want NICER sets than others and the registries create a (putative) objective way of doing this...