Do you have a dollar limit that you will not exceed when buying a card that is raw???

Kdog08 · October 1, 2009 6:17AM

I don't do anything with set registry, so I guess this is a question for someone that collects in similar fashion. In the old days I was ok with ungraded cards....now, not so much! What's your max on a raw card?

MeteoriteGuy · October 1, 2009 6:32AM

My limit would not be too high, maybe ~$100? Of course, you never know what will happen tomorrow. I might find a garage sale with all their cards at 1990 prices and pick up a Mantle...but assuming it is a normal circumstance, and it was not the 1984 BYU or the 1984 Miller Light Steve Young cards, ~$100.

hammered · October 1, 2009 6:39AM

It depends on where I am getting the card from

jimq112 · October 1, 2009 6:44AM

I'll usually pay more for a card I can see and hold than for a card I see a picture of, unless it's a seller I "know". It sure isn't fun to get a trimmed or recolored card when you thought you were getting a nice card and you paid for a nice card.

markj111 · October 1, 2009 6:49AM

If buying a card that is well-centered and and appears to have sharp corners, I will pay as if it were a PSA 7. I do OK with that philosophy, the PSA 6s, trimmed, and recolored cards are offset by the PSA 8s and occasional 9s I receive. I have paid up to $100 for a raw card (59 Shantz, PSA 7), but generally I try to keep it under $50. I stay away from 62s, 63s, and 71s. Too many are recolored.

Biggest hits-60 Hadley for $18, 59 Infield Power $90, 59 McLish $25, 71 Alomar and Gentry for about $20 each, 64 Aparicio $30-all came back PSA 8

Biggest busts-60 Duren-$55-Miscut (twice rejected-looks nice), 71 Weiss-$30-recolored, 61 card 306-$20-had a crease I did not see at first-never submitted it, 71 Foy-$20-Miscut (twice rejected), 71 Gibbs-$20-MSR

Many years ago (pre-PSA days). I paid $1400 for 61 Maris, Mantle, Maris A.S., Mantle A.S, and 64 Mantle. Both 61 Mantles and the regular Maris were 8s; the Maris A.S. ws a 7. The 64 Mantle was trimmed.

storm888 · October 1, 2009 6:59AM

There prolly should not be a dollar-limit on an in-person transaction.

Online (EBAY), the limit should prolly be pretty low.

hammered · October 1, 2009 7:03AM

<< <i>Biggest busts-71 Weiss-$30-recolored >>

Bet I know where you got this one

CDsNuts · October 1, 2009 7:03AM

Mine is $5 higher than storm's.

storm888 · October 1, 2009 7:41AM

<< <i>Mine is $5 higher than storm's. >>

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Yes, my answer,

"There prolly should not be a dollar-limit on an in-person transaction,"

was not very good at all.

I should have noted that not everybody "knows what they are doing,"
and should "have limits if they do not have an experienced person with
them to help make a decision as to condition and originality."

Obviously, an experienced person would risk losing lots of good buys
if they stopped themselves out at a set dollar amount.

.......

EBAY "limits" should prolly be pretty low, even for experienced folks,
UNLESS they like to gamble on such things.

Gambling is my second favorite thing, but I am really not much interested
in betting ANYTHING on the skills and honesty of strangers selling stuff on
EBAY.

WalterSobchak · October 1, 2009 8:35AM

I might go (and have gone in the past) up to about $100-$125 on a single raw card. Unlikely I'd ever risk too much more than that.

If I did buy a raw card in that price range, I would be doing it with the intention of getting it graded.

CDsNuts · October 1, 2009 8:38AM

Yes, my answer,

"There prolly should not be a dollar-limit on an in-person transaction,"

was not very good at all.

I should have noted that not everybody "knows what they are doing,"
and should "have limits if they do not have an experienced person with
them to help make a decision as to condition and originality."

Obviously, an experienced person would risk losing lots of good buys
if they stopped themselves out at a set dollar amount.

.......

EBAY "limits" should prolly be pretty low, even for experienced folks,
UNLESS they like to gamble on such things.

Gambling is my second favorite thing, but I am really not much interested
in betting ANYTHING on the skills and honesty of strangers selling stuff on
EBAY.

I was serious. Anything you are willing to buy must have profit written all over it, so $5 more is a safe bet. Please relay this information to anybody you are buying from and give them my contact info. Thanks.

Lee

itzagoner · October 1, 2009 8:39AM

whatever it takes if i want it, need it, or gotta gotta have it.

+alcohol.

fattymacs · October 1, 2009 8:50AM

The most I've paid was around $250.00, probably wouldn't go any higher unless there was a tremendous upside.

fkw · October 1, 2009 12:26PM

If I have a choice... all I buy is Raw.

ripkenintheminors · October 1, 2009 12:32PM

Depends on the scarcity of the card and if I can trust the seller. When an orange Ripken Charlotte card came up for auction a few years ago I swapped numerous messages with the seller and talked on the phone several times. I did not win the auction but it was the highest dollar amount I have ever bid online.

jswieton · October 1, 2009 12:34PM

<< <i>I'll usually pay more for a card I can see and hold than for a card I see a picture of, unless it's a seller I "know". It sure isn't fun to get a trimmed or recolored card when you thought you were getting a nice card and you paid for a nice card. >>

This is exactly what I was going to say. Getting shafted on a high priced card is the worst.

Do you have a dollar limit that you will not exceed when buying a card that is raw???

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