Rebuilding sets you've sold off

[vintagebaseballcardguy]

I imagine I am not alone, but have any of you guys built a set, enjoyed it, sold it off, and then built it again? I am considering doing this and was checking to see how crazy I am.

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[bnorth]

Originally Posted by vintagebaseballcardguy

I imagine I am not alone, but have any of you guys built a set, enjoyed it, sold it off, and then built it again? I am considering doing this and was checking to see how crazy I am.

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You collect pictures of young athletic men in uniforms, you are crazy, just like the rest of us collectors.

My advise it to collect what makes you happy.

[ALR-bishop]

So far have never sold a built set

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

So far have never sold a built set

You might not have sold a set but I do truly appreciate the Bowman reprint sets I got from you. I love thumbing through the sheets of card I could never afford if real.

[horzverti]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

So far have never sold a built set

Al, just curious, what is your favorite Topps set?

[Volod]

Originally Posted by vintagebaseballcardguy

I imagine I am not alone, but have any of you guys built a set, enjoyed it, sold it off, and then built it again? I am considering doing this and was checking to see how crazy I am.

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...as Chico Marx once informed us, so if it's enjoyable, it can't be crazy...can it? I also have never been able to part with any sets in my collection. I guess I will have to take them with me.

[taul166]

Yes, over a number of year I build a complete 1967 Topps Baseball Set (primarily raw), sold it recently, and am now building a last series, high number, 1967 subset.

[JoeDfan]

I once bought a HUGE lot of cards from a guy. It took me 6 trips to fill up my Jeep and get it all to my house. I filled up most of a room with it. I thought I got a great deal.

But then, a couple of months later, he emailed me and asked if I had such and such from the collection. Of course I did, so he asked if he could buy it back.
Oh sure, no problem.

Then a few weeks later, he asked about something else.

And then something else.

Over the next year, I think he rebuilt most of his collection from...what used to be his collection. Lol.

[bb66]

Some great comments in this thread! Very funny and true. I have never sold a vintage set I put together but I have only finished seven or eight sets.

[bb66]

Sorry to bring this back from so far back!

[Tere1071]

I built my 1974 and 1975 Topps sets by purchasing packs mostly from the corner liquor store, but I got rid of them not long afterward. In 1989 I picked up a fairly beat-up 1971 Topps set and proceeded to upgrade it over the next two years until it, too, sold.

About two years ago I decided to relive my childhood (1970-1975) by completing those Topps Baseball sets. I never had complete sets for 1970, 1972, and 1973 so these will be my first sets from that era. I have completed my 1971, 1974, and 1975 sets once again.

Phil aka Tere1071
complete 1953 Bowman Color, 1971, 1972, 1974, and 1975 Topps Baseball sets- all being upgraded

incomplete 1970 and 1973 Topps Baseball card sets

[Bcwcardz]

I haven’t built the sets but I’ve sold some sets that I’m now working on again. I had a nice 1976 set that I sold that I just started putting together again. I really regret that one because the condition was exceptional. It’s really difficult to find those type of cards now for good prices. Sold a mid tier 75 set and now and almost done with one. Sold a couple 1980 sets but I just bought one as part of a bunch of sets. Still working on a 74 set which was kind of on the back burner. 71 and 72 are also there. I don’t think I’m selling sets anymore, not unless I really need money.


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[deweyinthehall]

Over a period of years I built the 1965-1968 Topps sets, and then sold them off probably 10 years ago.

Times change, finances change, and I started getting back into them last year, and in the last 13 months I've put together both the '68 and '67 sets. Talk about Sticker Shock after being out of vintage for a decade!

I'll probably move on to recover the 66 and 65 sets later next year, but in the meantime, I've discovered the simple joy of just picking up 20 or 30 cards here and there of vintage sets from 52-66 periodically.

[Bigdaddy]

I find the practice of continually building up and then selling/breaking sets up to be an interesting proposition, especially from the monetary side.

It's like an ever changing universe where chaos (piles of singles) and order (complete sets) are battling it out. I wonder as time goes on whether the number of cards in complete sets is generally increasing (moving towards order) or decreasing (moving towards chaos).