People have multiple registry sets of the same set - why?

Wondo

I am considereing starting a second, maybe a third set. Why do you do it?

My reasons would be:

1. Cool
2. Inventory tracking
3. Set awareness
4. Advertising for BST within the set

Any comments would be appreciated.

John

mikeschmidt

Some people do it to (artificially) drive up the value of their premier set by being the market maker for some of the lower grades, etc.

Griffins

In the continual upgrade process, I often have a lot of duplicates. It's easy enought to build those into a set and eventually sell that set off intact.

SKINSFAN

Anthony hit the nail on the head ,It also comes in handy for trades to upgrade my first set

rbdjr1

What Griffins said!

I think most duplicate sets are becuase of "dups" from upgrades.

When I upgrade, I just throw the dups "back in the water", and offer them-up on ebay, mostly to fellow set builders.

rd




edit: I'm waiting for PSA to begin to allow card variations into the set registry. That would be interesting, don't you think? Then I'll start holding on to possible variations (that were only dups in the past!)

Griffins

They do allow variations- do you mean ones they don't recognize?
I don't consider a set complete until I have all the variations, but I do rationalize not counting some as "real" variations. All the stat variations on the back of '54 Bowman, for one. But the major ones are always listed in the master sets, if not the regular set.
There are a few variations I wish PSA would start recognizing as such. '41 Goudey is a notable example- they came with 4 different color backgrounds, but aren't noted as such.


These seem to be very distinct variations to me!
Getting back to having multiple sets, if you dominate the registry you run the risk of undermining your own efforts by seeming to be the only one that cares about a particular issue, and creating an artificial market. But if it's a popular set with other entrants you will end up getting more offers to buy and sell.

DerekD

Another example of variations is the 35 Goudey set. Cards have different backs, but aren't reconized by PSA yet. 707 has 8 sets entered on this one.

DD

NickM

'54 Bowman statistical variations are very real. Think about the fact that someone had to go and reset the type for each one. These aren't a stray line, differing tint, or piece of gunk blocking part of a letter, or anything else that is more in the nature of a print defect.

BTW, PSA should definitely recognize the color variations on '41 Goudeys.

Nick

rbdjr1

<< <i>They do allow variations- do you mean ones they don't recognize?
I don't consider a set complete until I have all the variations, but I do rationalize not counting some as "real" variations. All the stat variations on the back of '54 Bowman, for one. But the major ones are always listed in the master sets, if not the regular set.
There are a few variations I wish PSA would start recognizing as such. '41 Goudey is a notable example- they came with 4 different color backgrounds, but aren't noted as such.


These seem to be very distinct variations to me!
Getting back to having multiple sets, if you dominate the registry you run the risk of undermining your own efforts by seeming to be the only one that cares about a particular issue, and creating an artificial market. But if it's a popular set with other entrants you will end up getting more offers to buy and sell. >>






Yes, the ones they do not recognize! There have been many variations posted on these threads, that PSA has not recognized yet!

rd

djspann

In all cases but one, any extra cards that I have are just dupes that I haven't sold or traded yet. My exception is the National Chicle football set. I was aggressively pursuing these a while ago, but have slowed. Still, if I see one at a really good price, I pick it up, even if I have it already. I think my problem is that the prices are lower now than when I put the set together. And for some reason, I can't stop myself from buying a card if it is significantly less than what I paid the first time around...


Doug

marz

you get hooked and buy dups or groups of cards you need with dups

NickM

I think I will separate my round corners and square corners versions of the 1977-78 Topps OPC Glossy inserts (hockey) into different registry sets. I have a hunch that the two types were distributed in different ways, and they're really not the same cards.

Nick