No real easy answer for me. All depends on where I am with the particular set.
If I don't even have a card or hardly enough for a base collection to start from, I will probably just go ahead and buy it. Then upgrade what needs to be.
If I have a fair number of cards and semi-stars and stars to make a run at completing the set, then I will do that. In the end it probably cost more than it would have to buy the set outright, but I have the fun of completing the set. And I can get the cards I want upfront and not have to deal with upgrading any.
Thankfully, I am almost done with the 72 Topps set and that will be the last one I put together. Unless I win the lottery my Topps run will be complete for me from 69 - 2k. I would like a 68 set but that would be an outright purchase, and that is not happening anytime soon or later.
Cheers,
B. T.
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“Man proposes and God disposes.”
U.S. Grant, July 1, 1885
Completed: 1969 - 2000 Topps Baseball Sets and Traded Sets.
Senators and Frank Howard fan.
I collect Topps baseball variations -- I can quit anytime I want to.....I DON'T WANT TO.
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