It was the same for me with Erstad. Most went $10-15 but honestly, you're never going to be able to get this many at one time. I even bought all the cards I had doubles of. I know I can trade/sell them. I bit the bullet and bought everything. I'd been adding maybe 1 or 2 a YEAR and to get around...
One of my best mail days in recent memory! 48 Darin Erstad 1998 Tek Diffractors and a few base cards I needed for my second set.
This puts my progress at:
46/89 Diffractors (pattern 49 doesn't exist.)
19 Diffractor doubles
2 Diffractor triples
89/90 Base set #1
88/90 Base set #2
This buy is...
Starting the year off with a bang!
6. Finish my 1998 Topps Tek base set for Darin Erstad. I am missing pattern 86. For my second set, I am missing a handful of patterns: 4, 12, 59, 64, 74, 86
Still no pattern 86 but I did score 4 patterns I am missing for set number 2.
7. Add at least 10 new...
Hopefully COMC runs another special. I did the 35 cent one recently and they took the full time to ingest everything. It was a few cards per day and then a giant block towards the end.
Link to 2023 thread
My goals for 2024
1. Continue liquidating anything that's not part of my player collections
2. Add 2+ game-used items from any of my favorite players (Darin Erstad, Will Clark, Eddie Murray, Bucky Jacobsen, Aaron Kurcz, Stacey Augmon)
3. Send off a batch of cards to PSA...