Posted By:
Brian McQueen
Mike,
Good question. I prefer being able to acquire a group of the cards in the set I’m thinking about going after right at the start. This gives me a good start on the set and is more preferable in my opinion as opposed to trying to start acquiring cards one at a time on Ebay, etc...
I collect a good deal of PCL sets so trying to find HOFers isn’t usually necessary with these. Sometimes I let what’s currently available in the marketplace determine what I go after. If there’s a lot of 25 1910 Obaks available that I can buy to get myself started, I might go ahead and decide to work on that set even if I hadn’t considered it previously.
Many sets that you will come across have one or two cards in them that, for whatever reason, are harder to find than the others. If I stumble into one of those and am faced with a situation where I’ve just knocked off the scarcest card in a given set, I may end up trying to complete the entire thing knowing that the hardest card is already out of the way. This may not necessarily be the most valuable card in the set either just one that is a known "thorn" in the sides of those that collect that particular issue.
Hope that makes sense,
Brian