Buy the card, not the label

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by novakjr

He bought it for the love of the card

No he did not, he bought it for his "love" of the grade.

If he "loved" the card, he would have bought a thousand raw cards, or a few hundred slabbed cards (the slab protects cards from the elements) and covered a wall in his house with them.

I'm happy that the buyer is happy, but he's still an idiot. In my less than humble opinion.

Doug

[novakjr]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

No he did not, he bought it for his "love" of the grade.

If he "loved" the card, he would have bought a thousand raw cards, or a few hundred slabbed cards (the slab protects cards from the elements) and covered a wall in his house with them.

I'm happy that the buyer is happy, but he's still an idiot. In my less than humble opinion.

Doug

No, I agree, there is definitely a massive amount of idiocy that played into the purchase. Also, in my post, I noted that the Grade is a huge part of what this card is. Right or wrong, the card is no longer, just a '79 Topps Ozzie Smith. It's a Gem Mint PSA 10 1979 Topps Ozzie Smith.. of which there are currently only 4. Again, I'll admit that the grading is subjective, and doesn't mean that much to a good amount of people(myself included), and that some 9s are possibly better, and would be a far better value in terms of price. But then again, they don't have that magic number 10 on their slab..

[YankeeCollector]

Paying 20k for a 1979 card is flat out dumb!! How many more PSA 10s are there in unopened wax and cases? But give PSA credit, they have made their registry like the Super Bowl for graded cards and in an ego driven world, everybody wants to try and have something better than the other person.

The Registry is nothing more than a glamourized show and tell and an ingenuous idea by PSA.

[Ease]

Originally Posted by YankeeCollector

The Registry is nothing more than a glamourized show and tell and an ingenuous idea by PSA.

Show and tell is a big part of the fun, and the registry is the smithsonian of show and tell. I can't knock anyone for wanting the best, if they comfortably can afford it, whether its a 79 topps wizard rookie or a t206 wags.

[CW]

Originally Posted by YankeeCollector

Paying 20k for a 1979 card is flat out dumb!!

Ironically, some people would say the same exact thing about a collector buying a PSA 8 version of the card for $100... "Paying $100 for a 1979 card is flat out dumb!!" The same might be said about a collector paying $10K+ for an example from a rare 19th century set (eg. Just So or Kalamazoo Bats), although that would be perfectly sane to most folks here. It's all relative.

I think it's good to know, in my opinion, that some collectors out there enjoy card collecting enough to spend $20K on an Ozzie RC from 1979. It can be a waste of time to criticize a fellow collector about the items he spends his money on, or the amount he spends., because at the end of the day we're all pretty dumb for spending cash on old pieces of cardboard that have no intrinsic value.

[ScottFandango]

I know an avid collector who spent $50,000 in one weekend on three Different PSA Pujols 2001 rookie cards..he passed me on the pujols rookie registry with these cards to become #1...

Some specific modern cards do garner big bucks....especially rookie cards of all time greats (Pujols)....

We can't let the haze of tobacco stain cloud our perception of modern HAll of famers.... A hof is a hof, no matter the time frame...

No go back to hunting for that next t206.....

[paul]

I paid $5 for my 1978 Family Fun Center Ozzie Smith. I have Ozzie's true rookie and the guy who dumped 20 grand on his 79 Topps card probably doesn't. And if I had to choose between the two cards and knew I could never resell them, I'd take the Family Fun Center card over the gem mint Topps card any day of the week.

[ChiefBenderForever]

Charlie Sheen wrote a $30000 ck to a hot skank hooker and couldn't even remember doing it so 20k on 0z don't seem so bad when compared to this but both are pretty insane, I mean you can get both for a lot less.

[freakhappy]

Originally Posted by ChiefBenderForever

Charlie Sheen wrote a $30000 ck to a hot skank hooker and couldn't even remember doing it so 20k on 0z don't seem so bad when compared to this but both are pretty insane, I mean you can get both for a lot less.

Well put, Johnny!

It seriously depends on the scarcity of the card and how much someone is willing to dish out for it. And because of the PSA registry craze, I'd say a lot!

That being said, some people have no clue and these grading companies are laughing all the way to the bank

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by ChiefBenderForever

Charlie Sheen wrote a $30000 ck to a hot skank hooker.

But she was cute...