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Buy the card or the label?

qmayerqmayer Posts: 286 ✭
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Which one would you put in your set?
Currently collecting the Nolan Ryan Basic and Topps Player sets.

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  • 1420sports1420sports Posts: 3,473 ✭✭✭
    The PSA 8 looks much, much better.

    I would much rather have a better looking card/collection, irregardless of the grade, than a higher set ranking if it was based on examples such as those.

    Whose to say that it isn't a PSA 9 trapped in a PSA 8 slab?
    collecting various PSA and SGC cards
  • stevekstevek Posts: 28,972 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yea...I've seen things like this before many hundreds of times. To me picture focus, print quality and centering is of the utmost importance. I'd even take that 8 if it had a little more corner wear and got knocked down to a 7, over that particular 9.
  • yawie99yawie99 Posts: 2,575 ✭✭✭
    The 9's hardly breathtaking, but that 8 looks like it has a horizontal print line from the left border to the edge of Ryan's jersey. I'd buy neither.
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  • tcbphdtcbphd Posts: 125
    Yeah--I'm sick of registration/focus counting for nothing.
  • pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭
    the 9 looks like it has sharper corners.. the 8 has those "factory set" lookin' corners.. but i had a PSA 10 ripken with "factory set" corners too..

    but out of these 2, i like the 8 better.. i see the print line, but it doesnt bother me..
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  • zef204zef204 Posts: 4,742 ✭✭

    I like the 8 better too. You could always go with my 9 that is on eBay right now.

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  • digicatdigicat Posts: 8,551 ✭✭
    That 9 also seems to have some serious top-edge wear going on too.
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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,608 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Buy the card or the label....Ive asked myself that many times. I actually have in my collection psa 5's that to me are more attractive than some 6-7 graded identical cards. At the PSA 8-9 level if your fighting for top dog on the registry I guess you need the 9, at my level I would prefer a well centered 5 than a NQ 7 that is not centered well.
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