Hobby headaches.
doubledragon
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What are some of your pet peeves in the hobby?
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For me, it's rain. I hate when it rains on a day that I'm expecting a card. I picked up a card yesterday from the mailbox, and it was raining. I just can't stand it. It's quite annoying.
Water and cards do not mix!!!!
No, this stuff isn't gettin' to me. The over-graded cards, the keyword spamming, scans showing only 2 of 4 corners, three dollars to ship a single raw card, Fleer’s quality control in the early 1980’s, that doesn't bother me a bit. Or this hobby, either. Having to wade through the over-priced buy-it-nows, ebay and paypal taking every dime of my profit, shill bidding, and trimmed cards being knowingly sold as near mint. Nah, that doesn't bother me. But you know what does bother me? You know what really grinds my gears? Watching you stuff your face with those hot dogs. Nobody, I mean NOBODY puts ketchup on a hot dog.
Thank goodness it was a Larry Bird card and not a Joe Louis card that was in my mailbox when it was raining! If it would have been a Joe Louis card, I would have just called in the coast guard to retrieve it for me!!!!
Please Ebay sellers, stop listing cards as rookie cards, when they're clearly not rookie cards!! The 1948 Topps Magic Photo Joe Louis card is not Joe's rookie card!!
Ebay sellers that have no business putting grades on cards and have no clue between VG and Nrmt.
Also a certain seller of vintage cards that seems to have grabbed most of the vintage sets and sells cards at outrages prices which makes it quite difficult for the regular person to purchase even though most of his stuff is garbage. NAME WILL REMAIN ANNOMOMOUS.
People who find a way to be miserable doing something that should just be good fun. Baseball cards are my de-stresser. My fun, whimsical, relaxing thing that takes the edge off my job and provides me with a way to escape to the simple joys of being 8 years old and opening wax packs with my dad and with my friends. Getting a handful of packs from a mom home from the grocery store, who spent an extra dollar or two to make me happy. That's what this should be about, so the biggest headache for me is people who find a way to make this simple little hobby less fun.
kevin
eBay sellers that post scans of their cards, but cut off the corners and/or that post a picture that looks as though it was taken through the bottom of a pop bottle.
I think a lot of these are due to 'auto-cropping' from scanner software which always seems to crop too tightly, but some definitely do it to deceive.
Saying "centered" and it's not even close.
Or taking a picture at a odd angle to lessen the appearance of your off center card.
Not having a big enough room in my house to display all the things I want to look at when I sit in my office!
Personal Collection | Willie Woodburn | Legion of Doom
Buyers who ask what my lowest price is when I have it up as best OFFER.
Sellers who keyword spam PSA or BGS in title and its not graded
Someone putting a card that had 1 million made and saying RARE
People who use an ebay listing where the price being asked is $5000 and saying that is what the card is "going for" when the other 1000 listings have it up as a BIN of $1-$2
Death Merchants. People taking pleasure over making money off the death of an athlete.
Fake packs. eBay is littered with people scamming people with fake vintage packs. Why eBay does not police this fraud is beyond me.
Inaccurate title listings. 1/1, mint, rare, etc
People charging PSA 10 prices for their ungraded "PSA 10???" card
Trimmers.
The large scale fraud that completely took over the hobby/business over the past couple of years. It is no different than fraud in any other business and should be treated as such. People that commit fraud should go to jail. If their are actual consequences to committing such acts you might see things cleaned up a bit.
Large scale eBayers like 4 sharp corners/New England Sports cards, PWCC and tntnorthnj. The worst of the worst on eBay.
Nothing. I don't let anything get to me anymore. I just want to have fun in this hobby.
Arthur
When I’m searching for Heritage autos and they have non auto in the title.
Product is drying up. Not really. If you wish to pay the price it's available.
People that still spell a players name wrong on a card they are trying to sell on Ebay. It's right there on the card !
If I had a penny for everytime I've seen LOUIS spelled LEWIS on a Joe Louis card listing, I would have a fresh, crisp, juicy $50 bill in my hand right now!
Those are often some of the best deals you'll find, as the listings get left out of a lot of searches, and the competition is sparse. Y'all don't even wanna know how many Thurmon Munsan cards I've picked up over the years for next to nothin'!
Apostrophes. Doesn't anyone know how to use them anymore?
Several things: pages upon pages dedicated to team sets and commons from an individual seller; over-graded vintage raw cards; cards that are priced well above the point of reason that I need; real-life obligations/situations that keep me from splurging on the cards I need and the fact that many local sellers don't carry singles to build sets i.e. Topps Heritage in my case.
SMR: Definitely not a clear understanding of sales & value.
Vintage cards: Days are gone when you could pay 5 value and get 6 & 7's.
Sellers listing common 70's & 80's cards in PSA 5 for 7.99 + shipping. Why in the world did you submit in the first place?
People who list semi-high numbers as high numbers