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08-24-2024, 02:37 PM
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I'm a user on another vintage board (on Reddit) that unofficially champions many low-grade post-war cards. It's not that board's stated purpose, but a lot of newer vintage collectors show up to show off their pickups. Real casual community...
Many of these people are hobbyists that want a collection, but have money concerns to allocate elsewhere besides their collections. Especially for people that didn't start to build heavily in the pre-COVID era price bump these low-grade cards fulfill their collection need while allowing them to buy many cards rather than 1 or 2 really nice cards. They are very pleased and happy with their slew of 50s-70s legends, even in PSA/SGC 1-4 condition. Rather than having a few really nice cards to show off, they have a display case full of dozens of low grade legends. One thing about raw/graded I've noticed...the newer vintage collectors (less than 5-10 years) are kinda weary of wanting a vintage star player in raw condition, fearing ending up with an Etsy counterfeit or a trimmed card. Sure, grading isn't a sure-thing, but it's considered a safer haven. I've noticed many of these same people are not as weary of buying raw in person, but online they seem to gravitate to graded. Some people go graded by default, they've always collected that way and that's what they do. 
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08-24-2024, 02:43 PM
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People have to grade low grade vintage .............. because I keep cracking them out .................
 Fun, fun, Scott 
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08-24-2024, 02:55 PM
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I slab lots of low-grade vintage cards because I like the way they look in the slab. I don’t care what they’re worth. That’s the way I collect.
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08-24-2024, 03:19 PM
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By the time I made peace with "maybe I should have stuck to raw" my needs and wants list was already mostly graded (well over 80% complete) and I decided sticking to it was worth more to me than going back. It realized I became a "fool" when I was paying $10-ish for slabbed cards worth about $1 solely because I needed it for my Cubs team collection. The crazy thing is I can get more than I paid for almost all of these same cards because of the amount of people out there that would want it out of graded rarity. It's totally graded rarity, not reality rarity. There's only one 1991 Bowman Rick Wilkins RC graded by PSA, it's a 9. I paid around $10 for it and multiple people have offered me $20+ for it so they don't have to bother getting one graded for around the same price. Slab game has weird culture and value norms.
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