I hate the "except for.." in my PC

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Centauri

Some of you may not like modern stuff, but I put together a rainbow of 2016 Topps Francisco Lindor. I have every parallel of the flagship base card, including chrome, opening day, factory sets, etc. EXCEPT FOR the 1/1s. Simply impossible to find. I check eBay every day, and I post on various collector forums, but I'll likely never even see the superfractor. I do have all the /5 versions which took plenty of time themselves.

I hear your pain on the 1/1s. I have a modern rainbow I am going after. It has 7 1/1s in the rainbow plus all the other serial #ed versions. I have everything but 3 of the 1/1s. I will probably never see them but I still regularly look for them. I made custom versions to temporarily(hopefully) fill their spots.

[chadeast]

Count me in as a one card short '33 Goudey collector as well (I don't count the 1933/34 Lajoie).

I put together the entire set in 2021 minus one card, the yellow Ruth. I didn't care about centering, corners, etc. my main OCD was brightness/cleanness of the background colors. All of the yellow background cards were tough for me to find in non-dirty condition, and so the Ruth became my white whale. I kept thinking a nice looking A would pop up for a reasonable price but it didn't happen and then I ended up waiting too long as prices kept going up. I've since moved on to other sets and my collecting focus has changed somewhat, sometimes I wonder if perhaps I'll always be one card short.

[Tere1071]

About two months ago, my friend gave me most of his childhood collection: Topps Baseball 1967-1969. Each one is missing quite a bit of the commons and the condition of each set is pretty bad, but that's not too much of a problem. What he didn't have were all of the major stars. I will have to live without the 67 high numbers, missing all of the cards for Clemente; Mantle; Bench; Ryan; Aaron (67,69); Mays (67,68); Reggie Jackson (69); plus many of the stars that don't command the same amount of money. This is not a complaint, but it's going to take me quite awhile to put these three sets together- just like when I was a beginning collector in the early 1970s. I am reliving my childhood!

Phil aka Tere1071

[Harliduck]

The one that glares for me is my 54 Bowman set mentioned earlier...mine is "except for Ted Williams..." and that does bother me. I've been looking for the right deal for too long...lol.

The "except for..." has caused me to not start most sets such as 52 Topps. My OCD can't stand things not complete...

[riggs336]

Ruth, Ruth, Ruth

R306 Butter Cream EXCEPT FOR RUTH
W575-2 EXCEPT FOR RUTH
E253 Oxford EXCEPT FOR RUTH

When the cost of one card exceeds the cumulative cost of the other cards in the set, it's a problem. At least for me.

[Yoda]

[QUOTE=riggs336;2392401]Ruth, Ruth, Ruth

R306 Butter Cream EXCEPT FOR RUTH
W575-2 EXCEPT FOR RUTH
E253 Oxford EXCEPT FOR RUTH

When the cost of one card exceeds the cumulative cost of the other cards in the
set, it's a problem. At least for me.[/Just to add another: Uncle Jack's.

[butchie_t]

My "never will have" exists in post 80's sets. More specifically the 1990 Topps set. I never will have the Frank Thomas NNOF. That is the big one for me. My sets only go back to 69 Topps and with very few exceptions, I have been successful in getting the hard to get ones for those respective years.

But Mr Thomas and I will never be together unless I dumb luck stumble across one somewhere. Just not likely to happen.

Butch Turner