What are your baseball card hobby pet peeves?
 

What are your pet peeves when it comes to the baseball card hobby?

Mine is eBay sellers that charge $3-$4 for shipping and ship in PWE!!!

Not to be that guy, but there are about a hundred of these threads in existence already. They usually end badly. Good luck to this one though!

[QUOTE=alohasports;16778383]What are your pet peeves when it comes to the baseball card hobby?

Mine is eBay sellers that charge $3-$4 for shipping and ship in PWE!!![/QUOTE]

:)!

Also people who over-value ungraded lots of esp vintage singles. Can't tell you how many times I've viewed "NMMT" lots and seen EX/EXMT cards. Soft corners or 80/20 centering does not a NM/MT card make. :D

Paying taxes on cards.....I hate it!!!!!!

People selling on Facebook pages that list a card for $500, and then use language on "net to me" and tack on $4 for shipping. It's not ebay, just give me a price and call it good.

In that vein, people that try to bleed out every last penny from a flip.

Not being able to find retail.

Yep, I hate the net to me thing. Can’t we just say $200 Dlvd instead of like $190 net plus $4 shipping

[B][/B][QUOTE=Boredlawyer;16778553]People selling on Facebook pages that list a card for $500, and then use language on "net to me" and tack on $4 for shipping. It's not ebay, just give me a price and call it good.

In that vein, people that try to bleed out every last penny from a flip.[/QUOTE]

More of a forum pet peeve, but people who use the word "sell" instead of "sale." How is this even a thing?!?!

People that don't know how to properly ship cards (graded, raw, etc). There's some complete idiots in this hobby!

Two pet peeves: when scarcer 'hits' are substandard in quality, and sticker autographs.

eBay auctions for 1 card with pictures of more than 1 or a stock photo

Using anything but blue painters tape INSIDE an envelope/package containing cards

[QUOTE=MiamiMarlinsFan;16778394]Not to be that guy, but there are about a hundred of these threads in existence already. They usually end badly. Good luck to this one though![/QUOTE]


I think the OP found yours... LOL

not leaving feedback once the deal is complete.

SneakerBoiz and Bots and Panini Baseball EW

Unannounced base SP autos in Topps Chrome Baseball. I like simple math that gives me an idea of how likely I am to hit a good card. The mystery behind all of that was probably the straw that broke the camel's back on wax for me a few years ago. Its one thing to have a giant auto checklist, its another to literally have no idea about how many are made of each base.

Psa 10?
“True collector”
“True gem”
True gem +
True gem ++
Using sp and ssp incorrectly
Emojis in listings
I’m the mad rapper of hating stupid things lol

It’s not that bad in baseball but in basketball some idiot wrote a Jordan odds thing and everyone post the cards odds of hit x cards in set. So everything is like 1:9000 packs when it’s like a 1:4 insert. So annoying

eBay listings with “hot”, “invest” “emojis”, etc

eBay 1/1's.

[QUOTE=NYRE2PECT;16778699]eBay 1/1's.[/QUOTE]

Yep, I never click on those.

Little one but it drives me crazy... when someone is talking about how there are a lot of copies of a given graded card - instead of saying the card has a "high pop", they say it has a "high pop reports".

Panini. I hate everything they do.

[QUOTE=NYRE2PECT;16778699]eBay 1/1's.[/QUOTE]

You beat me to it. Stupidest thing I've ever heard of. Well, maybe not the stupidest, but it's right up there.

Or those that thing the one prospect they are hoarding is top secret! Come on! Your not the ONLY one in the world that knows about YOUR prospect!

A few others:

Pack searchers

Those that sell those mystery packs on eBay (they know that they are including any valuable cards in those packs!)

Slow eBay shippers (those that open an unpaid buyer claim them take 2-3 weeks to ship!

Those that see a good price on an item and buy ALL the copies of the card instead of leaving some for others to enjoy!

Those that will sell you their card for high book value but wants to buy your card from you for low book value!

Those that want to pay .50 cents for shipping but demand you ship in a bubble mailer and tracking (on a one dollar card!)

People who make a low ball offer but put in the comments that the player is trash and you should sell fast for cheap.

Also people who win auctions and immediately ask for you to cancel the sale.

[QUOTE=gmarutiak;16778609]More of a forum pet peeve, but people who use the word "sell" instead of "sale." How is this even a thing?!?![/QUOTE]

That used to bug me as well but Ive noticed its mostly people for whom English is a second language. I think its a translation issue.