Memory lane auction results last night

[Peter_Spaeth]

If you cracked all the 10 Rickeys and resubmitted in a big stack, how many do you think would get a 10?

[parkplace33]

Zero. Pop control. I doubt we ever see a new 10.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by parkplace33

Zero. Pop control. I doubt we ever see a new 10.

I am guessing many of the 10s were 9s that bumped for insiders.

[Fred]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

I am guessing many of the 10s were 9s that bumped for insiders.

Please say it aint so... That never happens, right?

Back to "why pay for the frigging label?" It's insanity, but then I guess I don't have a great appreciation for a number system which is arbitrary.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Fred

Please say it aint so... That never happens, right?

Back to "why pay for the frigging label?" It's insanity, but then I guess I don't have a great appreciation for a number system which is arbitrary.

It's like buying any other commodity -- you expect the price to go up, or hope so anyway.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

It's like buying any other commodity -- you expect the price to go up, or hope so anyway.

Maybe beyond that, you like nice stuff, and prefer it when the nice stuff has been acknowledged by an authority on the matter. Just how much it’s appropriate to rely on the authority is a matter of personal conviction. But obviously in the marketplace, the results suggest that the level of reliance is fairly high.

[Fred]

Originally Posted by raulus

Maybe beyond that, you like nice stuff, and prefer it when the nice stuff has been acknowledged by an authority on the matter. Just how much it’s appropriate to rely on the authority is a matter of personal conviction. But obviously in the marketplace, the results suggest that the level of reliance is fairly high.

I guess that's the sad part. The level of reliance on something that is proving (or already proven) to be more and more unreliable and apathetically accepted by a community of impaired collectors that seem to be blinded by it all.

Sorry, but in the end this has impacted a lot of collectors and turned a hobby that used to be fun into a circus sideshow.

It would be nice if the TPGs actually did what they were supposed to do. Kind of hard for the main TPG to say that they were trying to improve the hobby when the first card they encapsulated was a sham.

Sorry for the rant.

[Zach Wheat]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

If you cracked all the 10 Rickeys and resubmitted in a big stack, how many do you think would get a 10?

Agree with Peter on most points and it is unlikely any come back as a true 10 due to a number of issues including changing grading standards (amongst all companies)

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by parkplace33

Zero. Pop control. I doubt we ever see a new 10.

Without question zero. And a few may even come back as trimmed.