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Originally Posted by darkhorse9
I asked earlier about it being okay to call a set complete without truly high dollar or rare cards included (I'm looking at you 1952 Topps)
I've got several sets that I'm near completing including the Salutations Exhibit set.
I'm just seven cards away from completing it, but that includes the Gehrig ( maybe $1700) and the Rizzo (never really comes up). Every other card I need is well over $300 to get.
I'm starting to wonder if I bother picking up any of those $300 cards at this point. They'd just bring me closer to having a gaping hole in an otherwise curious set. It's not really a set that people buy complete anyway.
So, do I bother trying to complete it or spend my money elsewhere?
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"Most" every set is able to be completed.......so as you ask, do you want to spend your money on a tough to finish set or elsewhere? This is really the question.
IF you want to complete the set but are asking this question, my guess is that this set is not high on your priority list.
I have only one set to finish on my priority list, the 52 Topps set. I am 92% complete with my set, but to finish the set in my desired condition, I will need $12-15K+ to cover the final 33 cards. With my CC rewards, ebay bucks and ebay GC at b-day/holidays, I am looking at 4 years to finish...I do not have a plethora of extra funds to work with. I am content to take my time and finish the set on this timetable.
However, I could easily downgrade some of the key cards in my other sets and probably finish this set in months. But, I choose to keep these other cards in the condition that I have and take another 4 years to finish. To afford a low grade Mantle for the set, I sold off some of the "non-set" portions of my collection to cover a majority of the cost on that card. I had NO problems parting with that area of my collection to acquire this card. However, that card was the only card I would have sold this portion of my collection for.
In your case, you can take your time with the set and finish it at a pace that is consistent with your budget. Or, you can part with another (hopefully a non-set) part of your collection and finish this set much sooner.