[jchcollins]

In today's world of graded cards, centering has almost exponentially more importance to high grade collectors than it did even 20 years ago. When I collected cards in the late 80's - even with vintage - an older card with sharp corners that was centered maybe 80/20 was still routinely described as "NM" or better. Not the case today.

I'm not a centering freak, but will agree beyond a certain point it does destroy the eye appeal of a card. I look for centering today as sometimes a way to get a bargain - if a card is centered within what I find tolerable (I don't mind 70/30 one way, or sometimes even worse than that but still for some reason appealing to me) - I will try to get such cards for a deal compared to better centered ones in similar grades otherwise. Most people who collect graded vintage really do hate O/C cards. Fine by me...