Quality or quantity?

[NastyPatches]

I look forward to getting those rare patch autos much more than I am the lower-end base cards, rookies, parallels etc. but that beng said all the smaller stuff really adds up and definitely adds to your card count a lot quicker. I definitely favor the quality side much more but the quantity is still a major part of a player PC.

[iidaemmi]

Harri - No idea what that one is! Obviously from the 90s so I feel like I should know, lol.

I would have guessed also 90's, if I had not already known.

2002-03 Maple Leafs Platinum Collection #30 Doug Gilmour. Available only through Maple Leafs Garden and Air Canada Center. Available for box & packs, I don't know they were free or not.

Harri

[pacadie]

I am a paradox...

When I buy, I look at quality. Except for Nordiques, for wich I buy everything I can that I don't have.

When I trade, I always try to go for quality, but because I don't have a lot of quality traders, I more than often settle on quantity. That the only reason I collect Habs parallels and Hall of Famers numbered to 100 or less cards.

But there was a time when I was buying everything that catch my eyes (even, I am not proud to say this, 2 $ stars inserts). I had no direction and I am now stuck with traders that no one wants...

[Captain Habtastic]

Having some quality cards is nice, but for the most part if I'm going to go out and buy a card I don't want to spend $500 on it, no matter who it is. I've got a small collection of Habs jersey, auto's and rookies with a few inserts...but I don't think a single one is valued over 20 bucks, which is fine with me. I actually have a stack of about 30 jersey cards I'm going to take down to my LCS so I'm hoping there into taking quantity over quality because I wouldn't mind trading them for some lower end Subbans.

[SkidSTL]

While I shoot for higher quality cards, I try to get as many of my main PC player's cards as I can. Commons, parallels, inserts, Hi-end, Lo-end, etc...I prefer to collect as many as my traders and/or pocket will allow.

I will pick up dupes of HTF cards not to horde, but in the hopes that I might use them to pry another HTF from a fellow collector's PC if I can :-)

That said, the biggest holes in my PC are probably base and No# inserts lol!

Just enjoy the chase and have fun filling holes!

[Goose97]

To me quantity is quality! With over 1500 Jagr cards. close to 800 Palffy, and a bit over 200 Stumpel cards, and all of them except for Auto's and Jerseys in binders(those are in my showcases on my walls), I have binders filled with base, inserts, and parallels.

The quality of quantity is that if I want to, and I do, I go to my binders and look through my cards, and read stats, and bios. Also some of the best action shots on cards is mostly base cards. That's where the value of non-memorabilia cards comes in.

Don't get me wrong, I chase the 1/1's too, but I find quality in ALL of my PC.

[SkyFire47]

depends on what you can afford to do. and by afford, i don't mean just money; time is very important too. personally, i prefer quality in the big cards. i can see how others have more excitement hunting down as many cards as possible though.

[87sluggo]

depends on what you can afford to do. and by afford, i don't mean just money; time is very important too. personally, i prefer quality in the big cards. i can see how others have more excitement hunting down as many cards as possible though.

Bingo!!! Now that I'm out of money for new purchases for a while, I can maybe find the time to deal two 1,600-count boxes full of stuff for binders and shelves? And find more space for binders and displaying, which isn't going to happen so I'm going to have to downsize and get rid of my Drury and Gomez and Kariya PCs, 181 jersey cards, my 04/05 SP Authentics and my 06/07 Parkhurst autos.

So I vote for quality.

[bali88]

Haha, this debate is everywhere!

I think you can do both. Everyone wants to have those nice pieces but at the same time it's kind of nice when you have a case filled with the small cards too. I guess as long as you only collect one or two players, its usually fine.

1-2 players, you really can do.but the quality and quantity is good

[cntryislandboy]

i used to be about quantity but over the years i have gotten so much it's crazy, not to mention i was going for almost anything under the sun, now i am stuck with maybe 40 auto/jersey/#'d and about 12-15,000 base. while it's not alot by some standards trying getting rid of them it's not easy by any means. no am slowly shrinking my collection by what and who i collect and it is defiantly not easy and very time consuming