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Old 09-12-2022, 03:57 PM
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It all depends on your objective. If your objective is to enjoy the cards, spend as little as you can for one you will enjoy enough. If your objective is to build value, it usually makes sense to own the highest grade of a card you can reasonably afford.
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It all depends on your objective. If your objective is to enjoy the cards, spend as little as you can for one you will enjoy enough. If your objective is to build value, it usually makes sense to own the highest grade of a card you can reasonably afford.
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It all depends on your objective. If your objective is to enjoy the cards, spend as little as you can for one you will enjoy enough. If your objective is to build value, it usually makes sense to own the highest grade of a card you can reasonably afford.
While I agree with your assessment I am not really in that camp. My go to strategy, if you will, is to acquire the best looking example I can, regardless of grade. But I have to agree with you on the highest graded one you can get, might be the better investment. Everyone wants the best .... (show picture of E90-1 Young) LOL....
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It all depends on your objective. If your objective is to enjoy the cards, spend as little as you can for one you will enjoy enough. If your objective is to build value, it usually makes sense to own the highest grade of a card you can reasonably afford.
If what you like is high demand/low supply than you can have it both ways. But I agree that in most scenarios the high grade card will do better than 3 lower grades.
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If what you like is high demand/low supply than you can have it both ways. But I agree that in most scenarios the high grade card will do better than 3 lower grades.
It's always nice to have three or four than one , right?
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I happily get rid of slabs and replace them with lower grade raw cards.
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