Buy/Sell/Trade Forum

I use dinged cards to help package and protect when sending trades sometimes - if the extra layer of protection is needed.

I don't personally mind condition. I just like to know the extent of damage before acquiring. Just regular corner-wear or creases is no issue, larger damage such as torn, partial card, etc. is slightly different. I have some cards that have stuck together in the packaging and in attempting to seperate them, removed most of the image. Can't even tell which cards they are to document here, but can't toss them ether in hopes of one day finishing getting them seperated and the center cards still being in good shape.

I build a box of damaged modern and donate to goodwill when full...damaged. vintage I keep and trade.

Mark 

Condition means little to me.  I do prefer the better condition cards but have taken damaged cards.

That said I do throw away any cards that I would not put in my PC.     Out of the 180,000 cards of my nephew's collection I have thrown out maybe 100 or so and have some more (approx. 50) that I'm thinking about.  Still finding a few now and then.

To NJDevil. LOL. My wife and I both laughed when I read her your response about scraping your plate. We have a schnauzer that takes care of that for us.

I think they (dinged/damaged cards) serve as good fillers for a set someone is working on. Can use the not so pristine card until they are able to find acceptable replacement at an affordable price. 

Unfortunatnly, when you buy collections of junk era or newer cards, condition can be all over the place. I typically try to weed out anything that I woudln't want in my collection due to condition. Damaged cards, stain backs and such get tossed if they are a base common and have no realy value to begin with, I hate doing that, but I have enought stuff sitting around already. I do this so I don't add them into my trade list by mistake.  I don't want to deal with messaging people asking them if its okay, so to eliminate this I just chuck them if they are a junk era common.  If it's not a common or vintage, I will give the card a lower grade in the details and note the issue. Sometimes if it s a star player and I know that the trade I am working on is with someone who collects this player or team I will include the card along with a note letting them know that I included becase its not something I woudl trade due to the condition issue.

Yellowed smoke-damaged cards!!! Bought a large lot of cards from a friend whose father passed away. He was a heavy smoker so most that were not in plastic bags have a smoke smell to them which I'm removing by airing them out and storing them with a variety of materials like baking soda, dryer sheets, or paper towels soaked in Febreze (letting the towel dry before storing with cards). The smoke smell is all but gone, but the edges of some of the white cards (like Upper Deck) are yellowed. Not sure how the community feels about cards like these. I guess it depends on how you store them in your own collections? If they are stored in a box set with other cards, the yellowed top edge will stick out like a sore thumb. If they are stored in a binder, the edges are not that noticeable. I'd like to put them up for trade (with a note that they do have a yellowed edge), but not sure how members would feel about this. Do I post them or just toss them? Hate to see cards go into the trash bin.

(I'd embed the images in this post, but they weren't showing up when I tried to link to them from Imgur. I'll put the image links below.)

Top edge of cards.

Same stack from the side.

Same stack from the bottom.

What are your thoughts?

Thank you! HAPPY COLLECTING!

Crap. Forgot an image. Here are two cards from the same stack. The Wade Boggs is fine. The Ken Howell has a small bit of yellowing on the right edge.

Back of cards.

Thank you!

I have no problem keeping damaged vintage cards like this in my collection. They are much more affordable and still look great to me. One of my favorite cards I own is a very nice looking older Hank Aaron card with a pinhole in it.