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Merging sets.

RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
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Do you consider this fun or tedious? Discuss.
Ron Burgundy

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  • leadoff4leadoff4 Posts: 2,392 ✭
    Fun...
  • 72skywalker72skywalker Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭
    Anytime i play with cards it is fun.
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  • WalterSobchakWalterSobchak Posts: 2,096
    "Fun" isn't exactly the word I'd use, but I enjoy it. I find it therapeutic in a weird way.
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  • captainthreeputtcaptainthreeputt Posts: 1,235 ✭✭
    It always sounds like a fun idea, but about 1/3 of the way into it, I ask myself, "What was I thinking!" In the end there is a therapeutic relief, and a feeling of accomplishment.
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  • digicatdigicat Posts: 8,551 ✭✭
    What do you mean by "merging sets"?
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  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    i merged 1990 Fleer Baseball with 1990 Topps Baseball and wound up with 1990 Flops. image
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    I think Ron meant, you take 2 or more of a similar set and make one out of them.

    I've done it, it was fun.


    Steve
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  • Bosox1976Bosox1976 Posts: 8,563 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Fun twice per year, tedious thereafter.
    Mike
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  • parkerjparkerj Posts: 1,098 ✭✭✭
    Fun when its done, not so much during! I know i have a sickness, but i actually do enjoy building the newer stuff where i don't have to take condition into consideration.
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  • DavidPuddyDavidPuddy Posts: 3,487 ✭✭✭
    It's fun if it's a set that I really like. For example I've merged about five 1981 OPC set's into one and I found that to be kinda fun, but when I tried to merge two 1986 Topps set's I gave up. I still haven't finished that project and it's been over a year.
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  • KbKardsKbKards Posts: 1,782 ✭✭✭
    These make the job a whole lot easier.
    Card Merger
  • PlanemonkeyPlanemonkey Posts: 543 ✭✭
    I like dividing setsimage
  • jradke4jradke4 Posts: 3,573 ✭✭✭
    well back in the day early 90's i use to do this most of the spring and summer. i worked at a card store and we made hand collated sets. we would bust dozens of topps vending to make the sets. you would get about 12-13 sets out of the first case. then with each merge after that we would end up with around 17 sets a case there after.

    not quite the same merging that ron was talking about but the pharse was the same that we used.
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