What bothers you most about the condition of a card?

[ThoseBackPages]

For me, its Register, and tilting (aka diamond cut)

Here are examples of what i mean...

The register of this picture is pretty off, making it blurry:

Heres a tilt:

of course im not a fan of o/c cards, but i can live with that more then the two things listed above.

 

[Tomlinson21RB]

corners

 

[VizquelCollector.com]

surface damage

 

[muskiesfan]

I agree on the tilt. I hate when the picture is slanted or when the card is miscut (not o/c) and the card has a diagonal kind of slant to it. I have some cards like that, but I do try and upgrade them when I can.

 

[Viking4Alpha]

Definately corners. I used to be OCD like a ****, but I've gotten alot better about it.

 

[hofautos]

miscut, tilted, oc, all are samples of centering,
just like scratch, pen, print mark, etc are samples of surface..

and i agree, centering is most important, depending on severity of flaw....obviously a 2" magic marker mark would be more annoying than a slightly oc card.

 

[jlyles]

For me, it's definitely centering.

Also, corners of shiny cards like Elite EE. I can deal with a little white showing on corners of other cards, but the reflective shiny cards having bad corners make me cringe.

Although I would love to catch the vintage bug, I haven't yet. So my condition likes/dislikes are geared towards newer cards. On vintage stuff, the main thing that bugs me is super-rounded corners and also creases. I can deal with off-centering and "bad" corners. The tilt doesn't really bother me but to me that kind of goes hand in hand with centering. The out-of-focus card makes my eyes go crazy.

 

[tonsofcommons]

are we talking printing errors or condition?

I hate creases. Corners used to be my big thing, but with collecting pacific, I've come to live with those.

As far as printing errors, I don't like OC.

 

[miguelcabrera]

corners

 

[leatherman]

Centering is always #1 to me, but for my 1975 Topps set, nothing annoys me more than the large print dots (although they look really neat under magnification). There are plenty of high grade cards with a big print dot. I would rather have a lesser condition card with no print dots.

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[ThoseBackPages]

Centering is always #1 to me, but for my 1975 Topps set, nothing annoys me more than the large print dots (although they look really neat under magnification). There are plenty of high grade cards with a big print dot. I would rather have a lesser condition card with no print dots.

d

the '75 sets (reg & mini) also seem to be really suseptable to diamond cuts. but yes, the center on them is horrible for most cards, and im talking l/r AND t/b at the same time.

 

[matfanofold]

Centering, by a long shot!

 

[wolfmanalfredo]

Really hate the tilt, I've got some easy NM7's or better but the tilt kills them. I also don't like edge and surface damage. Of course everyone loves 4 sharp corners, but I'd take worn corners over wrinkles every day of the week.

 

[mlbsalltimegreats]

It centering for me. I would rather take a beat up centered card than a nice crisp off centered one.

 

[js0000001]

surface damage

+1


hard to pick up from scans

 

[UMich92]

Definitely centering. I found when I was looking for a nice Trammell/Molitor rookie, that the centering was what bugged me the most. And for cards with reasonable good centering, any perception of a diamond cut really knock down the desirability of the card to me.

Alex

 

[leatherman]

Definitely centering. I found when I was looking for a nice Trammell/Molitor rookie, that the centering was what bugged me the most. And for cards with reasonable good centering, any perception of a diamond cut really knock down the desirability of the card to me.

Alex

Be careful. That Molitor RC is notorious for Mickey Klutts having a pink nose (due to a printing problem). A lot of those 78s have the black ink smeared as well.

David

 

[uniquebaseballcards]

Centering.

New cards are almost always perfect anyway, so this is in reference to vintage for me.

 

[MOFNY]

If it has defined centering-like the 1999 BC International Refractor-then I want it nearly perfect. Second is chipping and Xfractor lines.

 

[rico08]

Corners on modern cards, centering on vintage.