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Posted By: Hankron

Many 'collectors' guage the market, try to predict future SMR prices and population reports, try to predict what what will be their profit on their recent buy when they resell it on eBay in year or five years. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that, but that's known as investing not collecting.

If the initial post was addressed to "experienced investors" instead of "experienced collectors", my answer may been have been different.

To me, investing and dealing deals with the price, while collecting deals with the priceless. I have a number of items in my personal collection that are priceless to me, and that wouldn't sell for $10 if I put them up on eBay.