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Keith O'LearyI've always been a set collector, didn't know any other way back when I started. When I did start on vintage, I tackled one of the biggest....T206. After collecting them to the tune of 470 some cards (pre ebay), the buying got very slow and I slowly sold them off thinking smaller 50 and 100 card vintage sets were the way to go. I've been at the T3s and T9s for 30 years now (I'd hate to start them now), N28s, N29s, N184s for 20, tried the N43s and N162s for just as long but recently (within the last 2 years) stopped looking for them. Vintage sets are tough (maybe the T200 set is an easy one, but its one of the few and even that one has its rarities).
If I was starting out all over again and had a budget I had to conform to, I'd be a type collector. It gives you soooo much more buying room. I'd have a different HOFer from each set and laugh at all those set registry chasers that spend 10X more than what a particular card is worth and one that I don't need anyway 
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Keith