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Originally Posted by mferronibc
Look I know people may cringe at the dollars talk and should be for the love of the hobby, etc. Believe me it is - but no one can deny the drive to collect something that may best retain or appreciate in value for the next generation and I'm still working out what that balance is for me.
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I found my balance a number of years ago -- I don't buy cards that cost more than $100 graded, and I crack out every card.
I found out long ago that when I have valuable graded cards I'm much more likely to sell them in a pinch to afford some other card that will in turn be resold -- it's a bad cycle.
If you have too much skin in the game then money clouds your judegement. So I just take that out of the equation completely.
That Aaron card is sweet -- I'd love to have that raw in a CardSaver II.
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"Collectors were supposedly enjoying the pure hobby of baseball card collecting, but they were also concerned with the monetary value of their collections." House of Cards by John Bloom, 1997.
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07-04-2019, 01:14 PM
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