I hate the "except for.." in my PC

[AMPduppp]

1933 Goudey, except for Nap Lajoie (and the Babes unless you have deep enough pockets for all four).

[Johnny T]

For me, it's the 51 Bowman....complete and fully graded, except missing the Mantle rookie....maybe one day

[jchcollins]

It's nowhere near complete yet, but I am ostensibly collecting the '67 Topps set. Though I have the two big rookies in the 7th series, the rest of the high number SP's will probably wind up being my "except for." Ponying up for Rod Carew is one thing; the idea of paying north of $100 for Mike Shannon feels foolish to me most of the time.

[Yoda]

I am trying to complete a T206 back run of McGraw - glove and only missing the Cycle and Uzit, the only known copy of which sits with our own Teddy Z.

[lampertb]

I have been one card short of completing the '33 Goudey set in trimmed condition (which is weird, but more affordable) for years now. I don't mean the Lajoie.
I have the complete set EXCEPT FOR the green Mel Ott port. I am not willing to pay current prices for a legitimately nice copy, and trimmed ones basically never show up for auction. Frustrating.

[Centauri]

Some of you may not like modern stuff, but I put together a rainbow of 2016 Topps Francisco Lindor. I have every parallel of the flagship base card, including chrome, opening day, factory sets, etc. EXCEPT FOR the 1/1s. Simply impossible to find. I check eBay every day, and I post on various collector forums, but I'll likely never even see the superfractor. I do have all the /5 versions which took plenty of time themselves.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Centauri

Some of you may not like modern stuff, but I put together a rainbow of 2016 Topps Francisco Lindor. I have every parallel of the flagship base card, including chrome, opening day, factory sets, etc. EXCEPT FOR the 1/1s. Simply impossible to find. I check eBay every day, and I post on various collector forums, but I'll likely never even see the superfractor. I do have all the /5 versions which took plenty of time themselves.

I hear your pain on the 1/1s. I have a modern rainbow I am going after. It has 7 1/1s in the rainbow plus all the other serial #ed versions. I have everything but 3 of the 1/1s. I will probably never see them but I still regularly look for them. I made custom versions to temporarily(hopefully) fill their spots.

[sagard]

Originally Posted by lampertb

I have been one card short of completing the '33 Goudey set in trimmed condition (which is weird, but more affordable) for years now. I don't mean the Lajoie.
I have the complete set EXCEPT FOR the green Mel Ott port. I am not willing to pay current prices for a legitimately nice copy, and trimmed ones basically never show up for auction. Frustrating.

Times like these you need to pickup a beater and trim it yourself. It may be the only way.