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I decided to do a new topic since this is a little bit out of the realm from my previous one. I had a few questions about collecting full sets and the like. I'll try and keep this clear and organized, I mainly just have two questions.
1) What's the best way to collect a full set? To be specific right now I'm working on the Evolutions set. I bought a booster box, two trainer boxes, and a two theme decks (though I consider the theme decks separate from my primary collection). After all that I'm missing 17 cards which I guess isn't too bad. My problem is they're all mostly the rarer/not common cards. Would it be wise to just buy them all one by one at this point? Some of them are pricey (I think one of the Charizard cards is about 30 dollars). Or would it be wise to try my luck again with a second booster box? A second booster box kind of makes me feel iffy, I could spend the 100 dollars or so and get a shot at getting the 17 but still come up short. Whereas buying individually at this point, whatever money I spend I know I have the card, no luck necessary.
1a) In future sets, is it a good idea to buy two booster boxes right off the bat? Evolutions was my first set to collect/start with so I'm way new to this. Do people generally get close to collecting a full set off of a booster box or do people generally get two boxes all the time when they're serious about collecting a set?
2) What should I do with all my doubles! I got a lot more doubles (and triples and quadruples and...yeah, lots of duplicates) then I imagined I would. I know you can keep up to four (or is it five?) of the same card per deck when you play, which is why I kept most of my extra trainers. But I don't know what to do with the extra pokemon cards. In general I'm keeping two of each, one of the regular card if I got it and one of the holo/special card if I got it. I'm only going to be playing the game with one other person, never planning on going local events or tournaments really, and I don't really want to have 4 pikachu cards in my set, and four more in my partner's. I would rather just keep it limited to one of each pokemon per player to increase the variety of pokemon. So having said that, what's the best way to sell my cards? I know eBay is generally the go to but I don't know if I want to go through all the trouble of that, and also having to worry about a buyer trying to scam me. Is selling to an online store ever worth it? Currently I'm using Collector's Cache to buy from, I also have Troll and Toad on my list. Do sites like that generally treat you fairly with "trade-ins" or is it a ripoff?
I think that's it for right now. If I think of anything else I'll add it to this list or make another post if someone comes up from behind me before then.
1) What's the best way to collect a full set? To be specific right now I'm working on the Evolutions set. I bought a booster box, two trainer boxes, and a two theme decks (though I consider the theme decks separate from my primary collection). After all that I'm missing 17 cards which I guess isn't too bad. My problem is they're all mostly the rarer/not common cards. Would it be wise to just buy them all one by one at this point? Some of them are pricey (I think one of the Charizard cards is about 30 dollars). Or would it be wise to try my luck again with a second booster box? A second booster box kind of makes me feel iffy, I could spend the 100 dollars or so and get a shot at getting the 17 but still come up short. Whereas buying individually at this point, whatever money I spend I know I have the card, no luck necessary.
1a) In future sets, is it a good idea to buy two booster boxes right off the bat? Evolutions was my first set to collect/start with so I'm way new to this. Do people generally get close to collecting a full set off of a booster box or do people generally get two boxes all the time when they're serious about collecting a set?
2) What should I do with all my doubles! I got a lot more doubles (and triples and quadruples and...yeah, lots of duplicates) then I imagined I would. I know you can keep up to four (or is it five?) of the same card per deck when you play, which is why I kept most of my extra trainers. But I don't know what to do with the extra pokemon cards. In general I'm keeping two of each, one of the regular card if I got it and one of the holo/special card if I got it. I'm only going to be playing the game with one other person, never planning on going local events or tournaments really, and I don't really want to have 4 pikachu cards in my set, and four more in my partner's. I would rather just keep it limited to one of each pokemon per player to increase the variety of pokemon. So having said that, what's the best way to sell my cards? I know eBay is generally the go to but I don't know if I want to go through all the trouble of that, and also having to worry about a buyer trying to scam me. Is selling to an online store ever worth it? Currently I'm using Collector's Cache to buy from, I also have Troll and Toad on my list. Do sites like that generally treat you fairly with "trade-ins" or is it a ripoff?
I think that's it for right now. If I think of anything else I'll add it to this list or make another post if someone comes up from behind me before then.
