The Question of the Day is a way to facilitate community discussion to help members ponder the unanswered questions of the world that are somehow relating to the hobby. Questions are many times open ended and up to interpretation. Feel free to post your thoughts in as much or as little detail as you’d like.
Helpful Considerations may or may not help some people focus their answer, these are blurred to not bother those who have their own ideas.
Today’s Question: QotD: If you had an obscure pop2 black label card and someone wanted it for their collection completion and was willing to trade a normal pristine copy, would you do it?
Helpful Considerations: Why or why not? What would be needed in value percentage to make you consider it?
To me they’re the same honestly. I can’t even understand the difference with pristines or 10s to be fair, since I don’t care about conditional rarity in general.
I’d be very happy to accept cash + a PSA 9 equivalent, and help them achieve their goal
I’m kinda torn because i don’t collect slabs so odds i would own such card are extremely low, but if i did own it it would be a card i would absolutely for some reason want to have in a slab, so probably some sort of slime rarity, and the temptation to own said slime rarity in unique slab would also probably be very tempting. If that was the case i’m surprising myself and saying probably no? But in every other case yeah, give me that cash and lower grade
But in my case I’d say no, unless they offer a value amount I can’t refuse (like that 1M c0ll3ct0r mentioned ). I own a pop-1 BGS-BL10 of my favorite TCG artwork, and I also already own PSA-10, CGC-10, gold BGS-10, sealed, and mint raw copies of it besides that, so I have no intention of trading it away, since it would break up my own collection.
Because pop2 makes it rare but not the only one of its kind. There will always be another out there, but rare enough that you may not see it for years of active searching.
I’m not into trophy cards. So, yes; I’d trade… and wouldn’t need to overthink it.
Mind you, I’d only have gotten it in the first place to break open and pop into a binder anyway.
). I own a pop-1 BGS-BL10 of my favorite TCG artwork, and I also already own PSA-10, CGC-10, gold BGS-10, sealed, and mint raw copies of it besides that, so I have no intention of trading it away, since it would break up my own collection. 