The Following Hobby Is Rated

The other day I was watching a movie on TV, can't remember which one it was now, and the rating for the movie popped up.

 

And I thought to myself, I wonder if we could rate the hobby like this.

Something like this.

The following hobby box is Rated F, because odds are you will be using that word a lot when opening it.

The following mail day is Rated C, for celebrations.

The following Topps flagship design is Rated D, for disappointing. Which is pretty much what I see out of collectors every year when they release it.

The following breaker video is Rated CC, for cutting a card up. Some of you may get this.

The following high end box break is rated V, yes violence of course. You will want to pull your hair out or punch a wall after wasting $400 on a Tony Pollard autograph.

The following card company customer service is Rated LL, for loud language

The Following over priced card on Twitter/eBay is Rated GV. Gary V helped me price it.

The following hobby is rated FF, For Fun.

I think a lot of people are on the fence about that last rating but I stand right there with it. I am sure there are many other ratings that can be made but I will just leave it with these few and would love to hear some from you guys in comments!

Cut To The Chase

Now that I have been showing off my RJ Barrett PC, I think it's time I cut to the chase about an incident I had along the way.

When a seller cut the price of a RJ Barrett Prizm rookie card, which is his clear cut rookie card to have, I decided to cut the rug and jump on it.

A few days later, the package arrived, I wanted to cut loose and open it. However, the seller taped up the package really tight and didn't cut corners on doing so. The only option was to use scissors carefully to cut it open.

So I proceeded to do so....very slowly just to make sure I didn't....wait that part of the...oh no..that wasn't envelope...I think I just cut in to the card.

I pulled the card out of the envelope after carefully cutting through the rest of the envelope and it revealed I had fresh cut the card. The seller never put it in a toploader or in a team bag but yet shipped it in a bubbler that way. I almost cut the cheese after seeing it knowing I threw my little bit of hobby funds I have down the drain.

I wouldn't have damaged the card if the seller didn't cut corners on their shipping and put it in a lousy top loader so I wouldn't have cut into it.

I wanted so badly to message them and tell them of their short cut, but I cut the cord and decided just to cut my losses and find another one.

Which I did and didn't get it from a cut rate seller.

Even though I had to pay a little bit more, it was worth it to get one that was actually safe from being damaged. This time I actually made a clean cut on the envelope and was able to hold the card in mint condition.

Let me know if you have ever had a situation like this before in comments. I would be curious if it was a cut above my experience.