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Posted By: Dave Williams

From about 1990 on, the manufacturers made it too complicated to collect.

It became difficult to figure out what the rookie cards were.
It became difficult to figure out what the valuable sets were.

They all looked shiny and bright, but to figure out if MIGHT have some value you had to wade through a huge price guide hoping you could figure out what card you had, and what it MIGHT be a subset of.

I haven't bought more than a handful of packs in 15 years.

Even though I knew there was no investment value, I used to put sets together from packs up until 1990, when it suddenly became to hard to do.