Bonsai_Tree_Ent
Jedi Master
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- Jun 26, 2012
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There is a problem that can happen very easily to anyone that collects graded. You open up a secondary stream, you're collecting figures but now you're also collecting the stickers from the grading company. Each object in your collection is now two things - it's a Stormtrooper AND it's an AFA85. Slowly but surely that sticker label has become the more important of those two things in your mind.
I don't want to place much appreciation on a sticker, which to me has a zero value, where all the appreciation ought to go to the object itself. I've seen countless limelight posts of graded items where people comment to the effect of "Wow AFA 85!!". That sticker and number can easily and insidiously start to take priority over the object itself - I don't think that is what any of us would want when we start out collecting.
I don't want to place much appreciation on a sticker, which to me has a zero value, where all the appreciation ought to go to the object itself. I've seen countless limelight posts of graded items where people comment to the effect of "Wow AFA 85!!". That sticker and number can easily and insidiously start to take priority over the object itself - I don't think that is what any of us would want when we start out collecting.