How one person collects, and the things about collecting that they get joy from is entirely personal. And to suggest your way is "true" collecting, and their way isn't is the height of arrogance. A collector who enjoys chasing rare/scarce items is just as much a collector as someone who wants to hoard a bunch of plentiful and cheap items. Likewise, a collector who takes joy from having a collection that other people want and would pay a lot of money for is just as much a collector as someone who doesn't care one bit about the value of their collection, or takes all their joy from staring at their cards. There is nothing more annoying than people who think that collecting and investing are mutually exclusive. Those are just people who are incapable of thinking extrospectively. They can't comprehend how others can feel differently than them.
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