[mrmopar]

Sometimes just patience and a little luck. Bargains for almost anything older is a ship that has mostly set sail, but you can find some deals if you are looking in the right place and at the right time. I was fortunate to dabble in some of the oddball sets at a decent time. My purchases were almost always Dodger related, so good in that regard. Bad in that I passed on adding other players or issues if there wasn't a Dodger or former/future Dodger. I sometimes wish I had focused even more on it when I did, but without an endless stream of money, I was always missing out on something. Heck, I will go through my vintage Topps and Bowman stuff and often realize with some level of shock that I am grossly underrepresented in certain sets, besides the Dodgers.

A lot of the real obscure stuff has fewer people fighting over it, but those people are not messing around and if they still need it, forget about it.