[CardPadre]

I love this thread because I think a lot of people are curious if they can use their hobby knowledge and experience to help further their collections or even make a little extra money when opportunities arise.

What Jay said above can be a successful strategy.

I just recently bought a complete set, that I genuinely love and collect, and am going to have to break it up because it's too expensive for me to keep.

My end goal is to keep some cards from this purchase that I don't already have and also take ones from it that are upgrades to my existing collection and sell my lesser copies.

Ultimately, by buying the set and selling some individually, I hope to end up with a result of little to no cost to me for this collection improvement.

I will sell my duplicates and likely even some of the nicer cards from this purchase that I don't currently have but can later acquire more affordable copies of. I'll keep selling until I have all, or enough, of my money back and then be left with the rest to add to my collection for cheap/free. Hooray.

It will tie up a big chunk of money (for me) for the next month, but I'm hopeful I will come out where I want. And if not, I will gain some insight and experience.