How do you Upgrade?

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Posted By: Jason L

Just a general collecting bahavior poll...
I was wondering how all you set builders out there upgrade your sets?

--Do you wait until you have a complete set before you'll buy a better conditioned card?
--Do you buy a better conditioned card if the opportunity pops up, even if you're not done with the complete set?
--How many "grades" higher does a card need to be for you to consider upgrading it?
--Will you sell the card to be replaced before you upgrade it? or will you part with more cash first and then sell the uglier example?
--Do you generally look to upgrade all your sets, or are there some complete sets you just want complete, and don't care about condition? (assuming there is enough of a population of cards out there)

no right or wrong answers, obviously - and I know alot will depend upon the sets you're talking about, but just thought it might be an interesting conversation topic.
As always, I could be wrong about that!


I have never really completed a pre-war set, per se, but I think I would be one to buy opportunistically, if I cared to upgrade anything...