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View Poll Results: Is Buying a Complete T-206 Set a Good Idea? | |||
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87 | 70.73% |
No |
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36 | 29.27% |
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I was looking at auctions sites and came accross this:
http://www.legendaryauctions.com/Lot...Set-(518%2f524) A near complete set of graded T-206 cards. Personally I would never want to buy a whole set in one lot. A large part of the fun is the thrill of the hunt. What are your thoughts or experiences? |
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I, too, love the thrill of the hunt but would buy the set and spend my time "hunting" for upgrades.
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I am not a set collector but voted yes because of this sentiment too....Buy groups, upgrade, sell the rest...party on.
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IMO this is something for a financial investor .... and those types of collectors are becoming more and more popular. They aren't into the "thrill of the hunt" as most of us here are. They just want to buy, store, and sell later at a profit.
Personally, I wouldn't do it.... although I have bought groups of 20-30-40 T206's at one time .... I don't think I would ever buy the whole set all at once..... that's just not my thing. |
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Even if I wanted to, there is no way I could come up with the cash to buy a set. I'm content with buying a card or two at a time as I can afford. Will take longer but the complete set will come.
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Not that I could afford this set, but usually buying sets or near sets is the most economical way to go about it, and typically much cheaper than buying one by one. Even if you got this set, you would not necessarily be done since you could still upgrade certain cards and go for different back runs.
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Be fun to be a part of partnership on a set like this. Is anybody putting one together by chance?
Best, Andy |
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I prefer the hunt so i vote No
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I bought about 450 different T206's at one time, culled out the ones I wanted for my collection (only about 30) and sold the rest. Didn't miss them at all - never thought of them as part of the T206 set quest.
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How did you choose the 30?
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I'm building a set of 'not normal' T206's. The commons have to have something odd about them (print freaks, non-common back, etc). Cards that aren't commons just need to be great examples, but then I upgrade if I can find a 'weird' one. All of this is within my condition parameters: great color and registration, generally 'no sharp corners'.
It's all personal preferences.
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I agree. For me it is about having one copy of each. Condition is unimportant.
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I've never heard anyone say this before, but for players with multiple cards, I go for the one that's the most interesting, and that's it. There are exceptions, but you have to find a way to tackle this thing, and this is my method.
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Bought a fairly substantial W572 set from a board member, separated out the dupes and kept the best for my collection. My set is now up to 93 cards out of 121
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Favorite MLB quote. " I knew we could find a place to hide you". Lee Smith talking about my catching abilities at Cubs Fantasy camp. |
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Bet that felt good!
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Favorite MLB quote. " I knew we could find a place to hide you". Lee Smith talking about my catching abilities at Cubs Fantasy camp. |
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I can't specifically speak to the T206 set, but in my own quest to build a postwar vintage set, I find that sets have a few problems:
-nearly all are overgraded. -centering on many cards is attrocious. Even in the PSA 7 collections I've seen, its like the original person who assembled the set cheaped out and bought poorly centered cards of the star or big name players. -whats the fun of buying a entire set rather than build it. -I'm finding that its cheaper to build my own set. This is contrary to whats supposed to happen, but very nice raw cards can be had for much less than "book" value(this I'm guessing is not true of the T206's) |
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