Do You Care About Pedigree On A Slab?

Not a tiny bit. I've only purchased one slabbed coin in my 50+ years of collecting, and I freed that coin to occupy my 7070.
I couldn't tell you at the moment which company slabbed it.
I tend toward raw coins to avoid the hassle.

I personally don't have any pedigree slabs, and would not seek them out.

There is however a top end coin market out there where the pedigree on a slab does make a value difference. A rare high MS coin attributed to one of the true numismatic giants collection will mean something at auction.

Now - I'm talking about multi-million dollar coins here and not the average everyday slab or the "First Strike" marketing garbage put out by the TPG.

I totally agree with you all about buying the coin not the slab. For the record I also hate things like FDOI, literally means nothing. I could care less when the coin came off the press, I look for strike quality first and then eye appeal.

Here is the coin that inspired me to post It's just a common walker but the strike jumped out to me. Then I researched the pedigree and found the guy also valued strike and eye appeal so the pedigree gave me slightly higher confidence the coin will look good in hand. I certainly wouldn't pay more but I thought this 44-d looked nice from the pics. I'm not out much even if it's not quite as nice in hand (to be determined)