Goldin Auctions - WWG set

[raulus]

I suspect what others are suggesting, sometimes in their own special way, is that you should be more focused about the individual cards you just acquired, rather than the precise spot on the registry, as the relative spot on the registry shouldn't be a meaningful consideration.

Based on a quick glance at the registry, at the moment, you're the only one with a complete set on the registry. As noted by others here, the other collectors that have previously completed the set have now retired their sets, which usually means that they've sold all or a part of their sets. The next set down below you on the list is a long way down at only 18.75% complete.

One way to read that is it's not a popular set to collect, at least in PSA slabs. Another way to read it is that it's an expensive and/or difficult set to collect in PSA slabs. Either way, you're the proud new owner of the only complete set on the registry.

So congrats on the new set, and hopefully you enjoy having it, regardless of what's shown on the Set Registry.

[SyrNy1960]

Buy the cards, not the registry

[oldjudge]

Why would you be asking questions like this after the auction rather than before you bid?

[NiceDocter]

$50,000 here and $50,000 there and pretty soon you are talking about real money!

[raulus]

Not to be the rules police for the OP, but I just noticed that your handle doesn't appear to include your full name, or something approximating your full name, unless your full name is Herpolsheimer. Leon is pretty consistently a stickler for that rule whenever you're posting around here about a person or a business. So you might want to update your details to provide that information.

[Carter08]

Great pickup. Even though it’s an old label and grade, the Ruth 4 looks rock solid.

[jingram058]

Sigh...where do these people get the money? You can't be this freaking dumb and make enough money to drop $50K pocket change on cards. Must have inherited it from daddy and mommy.

[Peter_Spaeth]

"I am happy with the purchase..."
People claiming fraud typically are not, in my experience.

[swarmee]

Looking at the auction page, it looks like cmoking had the #1 set in 2005 and 2006. The Memory Lane set (#2 Finest lifetime) then started being that set with a second complete set from 2007-2009. The Memory Lane set was then sold to Donald Spence and it was #1 from 2010-2024, recently retired.

So your set is actually neither of those sets. It's the 3rd best complete set ever listed on the registry, when you consider that you didn't buy either the Cmoking set or the Spence set. If both of those were still active, they'd be #1 and #2 current finest. Those owners could be in the process of selling them either parted out or whole.

But if neither gets relisted before the 2025 registry competition closes, you will get the 2025 badge for having the top set this year.

But as others have said, do your own research before bidding. While technically correct, you did buy the 3rd best set ever listed on the registry.