Most Collected Set Of All Time

[steve B]

I think some of those sets lower on the list are only as low as they are because the prices are higher, and there are fewer available cards.

The sales when new would be telling, if we ever got much for figures.

Just as a small reference point, when the small card store that also did a little wholesaling I used to go to was closing he offered me two pallets of 1990 Donruss. Maybe around 100 cases? (I didn't ask)
They would have been $2.01 a box, because the liquidator had offered $2 a box. I probably could have saved a few cents if I took them all....

The number of collectors in the early 90s was amazing, easily enough to support multiple full time stores on many towns. Few lasted, as they were forced to overbuy then clearance to afford the next hot thing that might last a week. The estimate of there being a million collectors is to my mind a very conservative estimate.