>>49946137After reading some of this, it looks like Alchemist guy just got butthurt by seeing someone call a graded card a "junk slab" and a similar card happened to be in his collection or is one that he considered purchasing. Alchemist is just too hung up on the term "junk."
This guy had a pretty god response:
>"I'm thinking out loud with regards to alchemyst comment about there being no junk slabs. I don't want to argue for a new word because "junk slab" has a useful meaning to the market as you mentioned and it's a good caution word that if someone wants to sell their unlimited wotc cards or ETB Charizard V they're not leaving money on the table by selling it raw.>Whilst alchemyst opinion is that there is no junk slab, my opinion is that there is no junk slab if it's part of a collection. If a collector wants to finish the base set on the CGC registry (whenever it comes out) then that Wartortle is a requirement and higher grade is a higher registry score. In more extreme cases some collectors like to do the whole PSA 1 to PSA 10 of a card too. Or the simple case that someone just wants the base Wartortle because they like it.>It would be interesting if alchemyst could futher elaborate why he is an adversary to the term. And personally I'm not a fan of the term too so that is why I brought up the conversation again. Basically I understand why the term is useful, but I don't like the term hence my opinion."----
Anyways, if you have a damaged bulk card in your collection that you want graded for sentimental value, it's not junk. If you decide to sell it at a later date, it's junk. If you graded this card with the intention of selling it? Even bigger junk.
There's nothing wrong with having a cgc 3 wortortle if it enhances your collection in some way (sequential grade collector or sentimental collector). But I'm in the camp that even having a cgc1/damaged version of a "high value" card is disrespectful and junk towards the hobby.
