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Posted By: identify7

Not at all Fred. Actually it is quite enjoyable for me to view a microcosm of one of your collecting thrusts.

I note that many are seduced by rarity, while to me it is an enemy.

I collect cards of players for much the same reasons which you do. However, when given a choice of a rarer card and a common one, I always choose the lower priced option. There is a continual trade off among condition, price and rarity (everything has some rarity).

To deliberately choose a higher priced option is a viewpoint which I am struggling to understand. To me, selecting a more common card yields either a higher condition example, or less expenditure, or both. And less expenditure can easily allow me to get two cards for the price of a scarcer option.

I do not buy cards to resell them, however, sometimes a card I have been looking for appears in a lot.