The Superiority of SGC

clydepepper · #1 07-01-2019, 08:32 PM

Let's face it guys: The most trustworthy status of Baseball cards, unlike women, is raw.

Kenny Cole · #2 07-01-2019, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by clydepepper

Let's face it guys: The most trustworthy status of Baseball cards, unlike women, is raw.

I don't think raw is trustworthy either. The very reason TPGers came into being is because there so many altered raw cards. The TPGer promise has clearly been proven to be an illusion in many cases, but that certainly doesn't mean that raw is clean. I would suggest that common sense and experience, while not certain, may be the most important attributes that any collector can have at this point. And I get that isn't particularly safe either.

Peter_Spaeth · #3 07-01-2019, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Kenny Cole

I don't think raw is trustworthy either. The very reason TPGers came into being is because there so many altered raw cards. The TPGer promise has clearly been proven to be an illusion in many cases, but that certainly doesn't mean that raw is clean. I would suggest that common sense and experience, while not certain, may be the most important attributes that any collector can have at this point. And I get that isn't particularly safe either.

I would imagine the Wagner wasn't the only trimmed card people sold to Jim Copeland. And yeah when I started in the early 90s and almost everything was raw it was the wild west out there with trimmed cards.