Building a set without the internet

bnorth · #1 12-03-2021, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by scmavl

Yikes, I hate to hear that Ben. I'm considering doing this, but as there are few shows here (and no card shops that sell individual cards) then maybe just "no ebay/auctions" would kind of modernize it without making it simply click + buy.

When buying a set in smaller groups and singles the shipping adds up real quick.

Carter08 · #2 12-03-2021, 02:21 PM

Would be a great project.

HercDriver · #3 12-03-2021, 03:03 PM

If you mean �no internet� as buying cards, but still able to use it to communicate, then it happens all the time in OBC. Guys put together sets in a couple days from other members bombarding them with cards. However, it�s an internet group.

Cheers,
Geno

scmavl · #4 12-03-2021, 03:27 PM

I actually meant no forums/websites/etc, just in person/phone/magazines/shows. "Paelo Set Building", if you will.

thatkidfromjerrymaguire · #5 12-03-2021, 03:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scmavl

I actually meant no forums/websites/etc, just in person/phone/magazines/shows. "Paelo Set Building", if you will.

I love the thought provoking post.

One additional problem with that, even though you mention "friends/friends-of-friends" is that not many of my local in person friends collect.

As a kid, pretty much 80% of my friends were all chasing 1987 Topps...so it was easy to get a trade going.

But now, of the one or two guys I know that collect, we don't really collect the same sets...so trading partners are pretty much ZERO without the internet.

scmavl · #6 12-03-2021, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by thatkidfromjerrymaguire

But now, of the one or two guys I know that collect, we don't really collect the same sets...so trading partners are pretty much ZERO without the internet.

Same here. Therein lies the challenge.

JollyElm · #7 12-03-2021, 04:20 PM

I find the thought so impossible that I couldn't even imagine building a set without 99% of the cards coming from eBay and other on-line acquisitions. And in the COVID era, card shows are as infrequent as lunar eclipses, so there's not a lot of hope working that avenue successfully.

bbcard1 · #8 12-03-2021, 04:43 PM

That was one of the great things about owning a shop in the 80s...set builders coming in...we helped a lot of people build 1987 Topps sets.

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