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Have you ever submitted a card just to get the holder?

plifterplifter Posts: 361
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Have you ever looked at a card and thought it would just look good slabbed regardless of what condition it was in? I sent in a 1952 Topps common (Bill MacDonald) just because I thought it would look good in a slab. It came back as a 6 which isn't too shabby for a 52 Topps card. I'm not sure but I think SMR lists even low number commons for around $40 in that grade. Of course I submitted quite a few other cards along with it.

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  • larryallen73larryallen73 Posts: 6,066 ✭✭✭
    Yes. I submitted about 15 or 20 low grade condition, but stars and super stars, from the 1940's and 1950's. They aren't worth a whole lot but I feel they are better protected in the plastic and fit nicely with my other PSA cards.
  • OnlyThe10sOnlyThe10s Posts: 1,850
    Absolutely. I had a ridiculously miscut Yastrzemski rookie I needed for a display I made... all I wanted was the slab. It came back a 4MC.

    Fine with me :-)
  • storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
    Yup.

    I send odd stuff, just because I like it in the holder.
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  • fkwfkw Posts: 1,766 ✭✭
    Almost everyone in the PSA Registry does. They dont collect cards they collect slabs. There are so many $1-$5 cards in slabs that cost $5-$10 to grade its crazy. Lots of people not using their brains. But why does that not surprise me?

    "My '82 Biff Pocoroba slab says 9, its better than your Biff Pocoroba 8, ha ha".
  • onefasttalononefasttalon Posts: 1,207 ✭✭✭
    "There are so many $1-$5 cards in slabs that cost $5-$10 to grade its crazy."

    WHAT?!?!?!?! Who would do such a thing????? .... That's just idiotic! ... .... oh wait. image

    I can't tell ya how many cards I've submitted just to get it put in a holder!
    It's amazing how many people are in this hobby not JUST to make $$ at it isn't it?

    Wow... what's the 'definition' of hobby anyway?

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  • Post25Post25 Posts: 206
    Sure. I also do it to protect the card. I had quite a few '54 Topps commons from My Dad that were literally falling apart. Got 'em slabbed so they would not deteriorate any more. All came back 1's but I did not care. Now I can give them to my kids in the same condition.
  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭


    << <i>Almost everyone in the PSA Registry does. They dont collect cards they collect slabs. There are so many $1-$5 cards in slabs that cost $5-$10 to grade its crazy. Lots of people not using their brains. But why does that not surprise me?

    "My '82 Biff Pocoroba slab says 9, its better than your Biff Pocoroba 8, ha ha". >>



    What do you think is smarter? Collecting slabbed cardboard because you enjoy doing so, or going to a forum of slabbed cardboard collectors and insulting those that collect slabbed cardboard?

    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • SoonerCowboySoonerCowboy Posts: 1,179
    Oh yes. I had this one slabbed just so I didn't make it worse. SGC returned it ungraded as "miscut".
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  • F1ferrariF1ferrari Posts: 583


    << <i>Wow... what's the 'definition' of hobby anyway? >>



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  • baseballfanaticbaseballfanatic Posts: 2,415 ✭✭
    I sent in some 1960, 61 and 62 Kahn's Jerry Wests to have holdered just because I didnt have anything else to keep them in.
    I wish they would grade the damn Topps Puzzles so they could be displayed, regardless of what grade they get...
  • fkwfkw Posts: 1,766 ✭✭
    Guy,
    I collect baseball cards and sometimes they happened to be slabbed.

    I do not collect slabs just because they say PSA-8, PSA-9, PSA-10 (like MANY do)

    Take it as an insult if you want. I could care less. Its still hella funny in a twisted sad way

    Maybe some newbie who follows the other lemmings will open their eyes for once and actually look at what they collect??

    PS I read this board for info only and put in my 2 cents like everyone else. But now I can see I may be a bit too oldschool for the overhyped PSA modern card generation. And no I am not old, but I do go back way before slabs. I am usually on Net54 but I do read about 7 message boards every day.

    And if Im not mistaken the jist of this thread is something along the line of..... cards that are slabbed that maybe shouldnt be or usually arent
  • BuccaneerBuccaneer Posts: 1,794 ✭✭
    I do exactly the opposite: I buy graded cards just to take them out of the holders. image
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,425 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Butt ugly - but doesn't the holder kinda jazz it up?

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  • HighChopperHighChopper Posts: 1,091
    I do exactly the opposite: I buy graded cards just to take them out of the holders.

    My dad does this with his '50s Topps.

    Drives me nuts ... especially the higher-graded cards.

    He giggles like a little school girl at the whole grading notion.
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  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭
    "Guy,
    I collect baseball cards and sometimes they happened to be slabbed.

    I do not collect slabs just because they say PSA-8, PSA-9, PSA-10 (like MANY do)"

    ....and some people collect Beanie Babies, and some people collect old cars and some people collect bottle caps.

    "Take it as an insult if you want. I could care less. Its still hella funny in a twisted sad way."

    I see it less as an insult then illogical. If I did not like Martha Stewart, I would not join her chat room and so I could tell them I don't like her and make broad assumptions that I think I am smarter then they are.

    "Maybe some newbie who follows the other lemmings will open their eyes for once and actually look at what they collect??"

    Since it is 2007 that newbie is likely going to collect auto and GU cards. Now personally, I have no desire to buy 100 different signed cards of the same Expo rookie prospect. But I do understand that there is someone out there that does, and I think it is cool when they scan them all and show them off.

    To me this is a hobby, and personally I am glad we do not all collect the same thing. It would not be as fun a hobby to me if everything I wanted was 20x.

    "I am usually on Net54 but I do read about 7 message boards every day."

    Congratulations on your ability to find your way around the internet.

    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • prscott933prscott933 Posts: 1,976
    yep. topps stated print run of 25 image best card i ever pulled from a pack. i don't have a scan of it after grading but it came back an 8.

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  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Almost everyone in the PSA Registry does. They dont collect cards they collect slabs. There are so many $1-$5 cards in slabs that cost $5-$10 to grade its crazy. Lots of people not using their brains. But why does that not surprise me?


    Is this the ignorant post of the day?


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