Tracking a PSA Certified Item

[travrosty]

only their hairdresser knows for sure.


i wouldn't encase my collectible in a tomb for any amount of money. why are we entombing our collectibles. you can't hold it, you cant feel it, you cant inspect it.

its just under plastic, to what end? i dont like it.

i bust them out. i dont care how much the original person spent having it encased. they lost that money, not me. i once bought a james jeffries signed index card for 320, encased in psa plastic, i busted it out, and later sold it for about the same 320 unauthenticated. and the market had gone down slightly due to recession. i didnt lose any money, but the person who sold it to me spent 150 dollars to get it plasticized. they lost.

[Baseball Fan]

Originally Posted by travrosty

only their hairdresser knows for sure.


i wouldn't encase my collectible in a tomb for any amount of money. why are we entombing our collectibles. you can't hold it, you cant feel it, you cant inspect it.

its just under plastic, to what end? i dont like it.

i bust them out. i dont care how much the original person spent having it encased. they lost that money, not me. i once bought a james jeffries signed index card for 320, encased in psa plastic, i busted it out, and later sold it for about the same 320 unauthenticated. and the market had gone down slightly due to recession. i didnt lose any money, but the person who sold it to me spent 150 dollars to get it plasticized. they lost.

Well, this is where we differ. At least on checks.

1. You can certainly still hold it. It's just now in a cool looking(to me) protective case.

2. I don't want myself, or anybody else, feeling my checks on a regular basis anyway.

[Baseball Fan]

Originally Posted by travrosty

i dont care how much the original person spent having it encased. they lost that money, not me. i once bought a james jeffries signed index card for 320, encased in psa plastic, i busted it out, and later sold it for about the same 320 unauthenticated. and the market had gone down slightly due to recession. i didnt lose any money, but the person who sold it to me spent 150 dollars to get it plasticized. they lost.

For me, I'm not in it for the money. So no matter what the value is in a tomb or not in a tomb doesn't matter to me. It's about what looks good (in my opinion) on display in my self-made museum of autographs.

Having checks "framed" in a PSA tomb looks so much better than in my top loaders. There is a touch of professionalism that really makes the check come to life.

I'm willing to pay a small fee for somebody to provide that service to me.

[travrosty]

in a tomb is stupid, you cant hold it, feel it. why not put it behind 4 feet of plastic and enjoy it that way? doesnt make any sense. holding history in your hand is fun. holding a piece of plastic stinks.

[Baseball Fan]

Originally Posted by travrosty

in a tomb is stupid, you cant hold it, feel it. why not put it behind 4 feet of plastic and enjoy it that way? doesnt make any sense. holding history in your hand is fun. holding a piece of plastic stinks.

I can appreciate what appears to be your strong desire to feel a collectable in your hand. But when it comes to my collection, I do not want me or anybody else 'feeling' my graph. You are just going to have to imagine what holding a signed Mantle or Williams baseball feels like, because I'm not ever going to let you fondle my balls once they are encased.

I've been to plenty of museums, including the Baseball Hall of Fame, and I've been quite content looking at all the historical pieces behind glass without having to actually wear Ruth's jersey or swing Pete Rose's bat.

Again, just my take. I'll pick tomb for my checks and enjoy the heck out of being able to handle them in my own way.

[Exhibitman]

I agree w/Baseball Fan, and that is also why I tend to send things to SGC rather than PSA. I like the aesthetics of their holder for display purposes. Plus they do a really nice job on custom items. Here are a few that I am very pleased with:

[mighty bombjack]

Originally Posted by Baseball Fan

For me, I'm not in it for the money. So no matter what the value is in a tomb or not in a tomb doesn't matter to me. It's about what looks good (in my opinion) on display in my self-made museum of autographs.

Having checks "framed" in a PSA tomb looks so much better than in my top loaders. There is a touch of professionalism that really makes the check come to life.

I'm willing to pay a small fee for somebody to provide that service to me.

Nicely stated. Enjoy your hobby the way you want to enjoy it.

And feel free to show some of your favorites here; I for one would like to see them.

[johnmh71]

Originally Posted by mighty bombjack

Nicely stated. Enjoy your hobby the way you want to enjoy it.

And feel free to show some of your favorites here; I for one would like to see them.

I'll second that.

[travrosty]

yet you can go down to houston to nasa headquarters and stick your hand in a display and actually touch a moonrock. weird how that works and how they are not snobs about it. good for them.

[travrosty]

i am not saying people shouldnt protect their autographs, but to entomb them so you cant take them out without breaking an 'authenticity' seal makes no sense. put them under protection but in a way you can take them out if you want and it is not all of the sudden rendered 'not authentic' anymore because you took it out of its plastic.

point it if you wanted to hold the baseball or the autograph, you can't without wasting the authenticity money. you can get stuff authenticated with an LOA and still put it in a holder that is reversible without "ruining" the authentication.

i just hate those encapsulated holders anyway. they are worthless.

[Baseball Fan]

Originally Posted by travrosty

i am not saying people shouldnt protect their autographs, but to entomb them so you cant take them out without breaking an 'authenticity' seal makes no sense. put them under protection but in a way you can take them out if you want and it is not all of the sudden rendered 'not authentic' anymore because you took it out of its plastic.

point it if you wanted to hold the baseball or the autograph, you can't without wasting the authenticity money. you can get stuff authenticated with an LOA and still put it in a holder that is reversible without "ruining" the authentication.

i just hate those encapsulated holders anyway. they are worthless.

I see what you are saying, but I made the determination that with a paper check, I will never be taking them out of the protective holder in which I am placing them in.

I don't anticpate any reason I will be doing so, as I methodically plan and decide the course of action for each collectible I have so I'm not going in different directions every year or so.

If for some reason I decide in the future to do something else with them, I'll break them without any problem as I don't have them tombed for authenticity. If I keep them encased for a period of five years and somehow take them out, it's not a huge waste of money due to the fact that I got to enjoy that plastic case for a period of five years. Most people would spend more at their local bars in a month than I will spend on my multiple $12.50 'frames' from PSA.

Your opinion is that you'd like the opportunity to easily touch your collectible if you choose. My opinion is that I don't want to ever touch my collectible without it being protected ever again, and PSA provides a nice comfort for me in that regard.

I'm not sure either one of us will be changing our minds any time soon. Which is good, because you are doing what makes you happy and I'm doing what makes me happy. It would suck if we were doing the reverse.