Grading hits home

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Posted By: barrysloate

In the end if people like their cards slabbed, there's nothing really wrong with it. Ultimately, every card in the hobby will one day be slabbed, and there will be no raw cards left. Maybe it's not my favorite part of the hobby, and I think we all agree there are definitely problems with it, but I suppose if that's what collectors like, then there is a need for it. There will probably be other changes down the road that we don't anticipate even today, and with ebay, it's clearly too dangerous to buy raw cards from nameless and faceless dealers who may be selling out of the back of a station wagon with a laptop, so I guess they serve a useful purpose.
Just a quick question: for those collectors who own thousands of cards, and consequently thousands of slabs, how do you store/display them? I recall years ago having my T205/T206 sets all fit in plastic pages in one binder. Do today's collectors have these sets in 800 slabs? You would need a flatbed just to move them around the house.