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. Questionsj 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: Are you less attached to the cards you digitally own in vaults? *
Helpful Considerations: Do you find yourself less attached to the cards you digitally own in vaults versus the ones you physically own at home? Are you more likely to sell vault cards? This is a suggested question.
I can’t imagine ever owning a card digitally as a collector, it seems a little pointless to be honest. Why not just download a png if you enjoy looking at the image?
I would say they feel a bit different, although I’m still very attached. I would be too scared anyway to keep everything in one place, so the vault allows me to keep collecting without stressing too much.
If we were in 2016 I would definitely build a display at home, since I enjoy handling my cards, but it is what it is.
You surely have less friction when it comes to buying and selling, so it can get very impersonal especially when people treat it more like a investment
I’d say yes, I currently feel no attachment to the few cards I have in a vault. That said, I am excited to finally have them in hand sometime later this year!
I think the vault serves a very practical purpose, but I’m not such a fan of the vault for my own collection. If my only touchpoint with a card is through a screen, I don’t really see it all that differently to buying shares or trading. It’s not 1:1, but my point is I like tangibility. I’d be more inclined to look into a personal safe than vaulting, which given I’m Australian means it’s also being stored in an entirely different country to many others here.
However, since I’ve refined my goals a bit I may start using it for strictly commercial reasons.
No, I consider my PC that I store in vaults the exact same as what I keep in my house. I derive the same happiness scrolling through my vault page online as I do holding the cards in person. In an ideal world maybe it would be nice to be able to keep all my cards with me, but I don’t lose any attachment when they’re vaulted.
I have less of an emotional connection to cards in a vault. It’s a totally different experience holding your card in physical form imo that’s how the experience is supposed to be. For practical and safety purposes I can see the value of using a vault but not from an emotional stance.
I tend to care about the value of the cards I have in vaults more than those that aren’t. Partly being that they are in the vault cause of value but also PSA likes to put the value in your face.
There’s a passable movie “A Good Year”, my GF and I watch it for the scenery in rural France. The POINT tho, is that one of the last lines is this question,
“When do you look at it? Do you make late night pilgrimages down to the vault?” said in reference to a multi-million dollar painting stored in the vault.
It depends why I am vaulting the card. I primarily use vaults for three reasons:
Storing duplicate copies of cards I have in my collection
Storing cards I intend to sell in the medium-long term
Storing cards with values that are high enough to cause me more stress than excitement about having them in the house
For duplicates and cards I intend to sell, I am not really attached to those cards in the first place so having them in the vault is not an issue. For cards with high values, usually their values get that way via appreciation and not me buying a high-value card. So I have often enjoyed these cards for a long time and eventually the market dictates that they need to be vaulted. Especially because I have seen them so much before, I don’t feel any less attachment to them.
Just kidding, I keep both buried in treasure chests scattered across the country.
Very early on when I didn’t know jack diddly, I had bought some stuff in auction houses. I didn’t even fathom the concept of a vault. I forgot I had cards stored. I’ve just been perpetually forgetting to send them home. I want to deslabify them.
But I’m also not someone who bought like 10 of every gold star in 2012 in mint condition. I’m not the same as a big dog. But I also don’t trust strangers. having wealth is stressful no matter what form it is in, or where it is at. I think the real sad part is that I even have to THINK that way about something that I would rather just be a fun thing.
Yes I feel less attached to cards that are vaulted, but doesn’t change my desire to collect. You can only feel so much attachment to something digitally than physically.
