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Posted By: jay behrens

Ted you may be a set collector, but you collect a very broad number sets. You were able to do this because you have been in the hobby a very long time. Someone just coming into the hobby would need an incredible bankroll to collect the variety of sets you have put together over the years. I believe his point was that if you are new and focus on one or two sets, then your overall knowledge of the hobby will.

On the other hand, focusing on one or two sets will eventually make you one of the leading experts on those sets. It's all of matter of what you want out of your collecting. Is it a broad knowledge of all cards, or very intimate knowledge of a few sets. Everyone will have a different answer.

The days of someone entering the hobby and being able to put together complete sets of everything from 1800s to date is long gone. You are a rare breed, the likes of which will slowly disappear.

Jay

I'm incompetent at being incontenent.