Quality or quantity?

[flemingc04]

I prefer quality over quanitity. I still appreciate inserts and base but I have a limited amount of room to stomre cards so I have become a little more selective on singles I pickup. There are hundreds of jerseys cards alone I could grab for my PC guys let alone base and inserts.

In the deliberations over what goes in the display case this month, some are more equal than others. LOL

You just made my day Richard!

[iidaemmi]

I want them all, so both.

Harri

[Fleury14]

I used to want quantity but after a while I used up some many traders and cash (with cost + shipping) that I ended up missing out on all of the rarer cards that I really wanted. So now I've limited my number of players PCs and don't even pay attention to cards that aren't limited to /499 or less (or hard-signed autos).

So if you're limited financially, I'd suggest saving your resources for quality.

[Wickabee]

I want them all, so both.

Harri

Yeah this.

[mingus_md]

As a team collector, it is hard to balance quality with quantity. I like to collect base team sets, but more and more I am being drawn to all of the Rangers Autos in the Panini products. For the 2011-12 products, I think I am going to focus a bit more on quality than I have in the past, but I'm sure some quantity of base cards will be purchased too.

[centrehice]

All depends on what is considered Quality. I consider Game Used Cards as Novelty, and Regs/Base as Quality.

[ColtsD21]

I struggle with this very much. I just love to bust wax too much. I refuse to sell the hits for $2 after spending over $100 on the box. This has caused me to accumulate way too much crap. After doing this for over a year, with 4-sports, It started to get a little outta hand. I finally realized I cant keep this up. Therefore I dropped basketball, and try to be more selective of the brands I go after. This is easier said then done because I love to open the hottest and newest products. As fullfilling as it is to pull something cool, Im more likely to sell or trade it for a pc player. Therefore I think quality is the way to go. If I continue on like I have been for another 30 years, i'll have to build a 3 story wharehouse to store everything.

[G0SHARKSG0]

I have now started going more for quality but at the start it was all quantity for me

[JordanStaal11]

I want them all, so both.

Harri

Me too, lol.

I try to get the high end stuff but cheap out on the low end stuff. I have bought to many base or inserts one at a time on ebay.

[lumm0x]

Both. Base and inserts are under appreciated enough by the hobby. I find just as much happiness landing any card from my wantlist. Be it a 1/1, an insert or a parallel. Sometimes the hardest cards to acquire are parallels from low end sets.

To me a collection needs a balance of both. Anyone can throw money at high end cards and have an instant appreciated collection. But I find more respect and appeal in the collections where people have been grinding out that wantlist for decades and have a high % of the overall checklist and are more excited about landing that 1997 parallel /15 than they are a modern day overplayed 1/1.