Posted By:
robert aI think caramel prices have cooled off a bit lately, but issues like E97, E98, and E94 are still going to be tough to find if you're a set collector.
Most of the examples that I see are just being recycled back into the hobby.
I recently sold close to 80 E98s in the period of a couple months. It took me years to accumulate those and I was as active as you can get.
Since I've sold the group, I've seen several already sold again on ebay or elsewhere.
Folks have made some good points already and I agree with the fact that people don't like to collect sets like E97 because it's really difficult to complete but not difficult to obtain a type.
E104-1 is completeable, but some of the type 3 cards might be unique. I think there might be a relatively large number of these cards in private collections that aren't going anywhere...similar to E99s, E100s, E107s, etc.
By the way, I don't think E101s are that easy, I just think that most people don't collect the set because the poses are shared.
Rob