Question:Player Collectors vs. those wacky A&G Set Builders.

[ThoseBackPages]

Player Collectors, do you have a game plan when fighting the A&G Set Builders for cards?

 

[Bigfan5]

Yes, I just spend more than them until I'm done.

 

[starwarsfan2003]

Sometimes you have to bite the bullet and just pay through the nose for the stuff you want man. A&G is a heavily collected set, so best of luck. People would laugh when I'd say I paid $75 per for Markakis A&G plates, or $350 for a wood 1/1, but the set collectors are hard core. Good luck man.

EDIT: Did you win the A&G plate that ended for $42?

 

[Tomlinson21RB]

Yes, I just spend more than them until I'm done.

+1

Wait out cards that have decent quantities, go hard after those that don't. Deal with it if I'm missing some when all is said and done.

 

[Bigfan5]

Sometimes you have to bite the bullet and just pay through the nose for the stuff you want man. A&G is a heavily collected set, so best of luck. People would laugh when I'd say I paid $75 per for Markakis A&G plates, or $350 for a wood 1/1, but the set collectors are hard core. Good luck man.

I won't laugh at you. I just paid 300 for the Ethier wood 1/1 so I'm in the same boat.

 

[starwarsfan2003]

I won't laugh at you. I just paid 300 for the Ethier wood 1/1 so I'm in the same boat.

This was in 2006 actually. Nowadays its just the norm, brother.

 

[C.L.258]

i dont need a game plan cuz the player i collect(paul molitor) isnt in that set lol. so maybe i made the right choice on choosing which player to collect

 

[LWMM]

The 1/1s is really just a slugging match between wallets. With the others (/50, /25, even /10), however, I usually let a few go by before buying mine, as by then the most serious set collectors have already purchased their copies and the prices tend to be slightly lower.

Edited to ad: When 2007 A&G came out, someone bought a 2007 Gomes plate at a 25 BIN before I saw it. I asked him if he would like to sell it, and he said that he had again put it with a BIN ($50, this time). Turned out someone had seen it before me (again!), and it's now locked up in a collection. Ugh! Really, really wish that the original purchaser had had the decency to have just done the deal via email.

 

[Zambrano38]

For the cards /50 or /25, I will wait a while to buy them until the prices are a little lower. For 1/1s especially sketches and woods, I will pretty much bid whatever it takes to win them. If they are up with a BIN/BO, I will put in an offer that is pretty much the most that I want to pay. This way, they will realize that I am very serious about buying the card, and even if someone has a higher offer, the seller will at least send me a counteroffer. With A&G, trying to haggle with the seller really doesn't work. If you don't buy it, someone else will.

 

[BunchOBull]

As a player collector first, and a crazy A&G collector second. I can say I haven't gotten most of the hard to find cards of my guy yet. No woods to my name anyway.

This is the first year Frank isn't in the set though.

 

[TNP777]

I'll chime in as a the crazy team collector. This will mark the fourth year of trying to obtain a Dodger 'rainbow' (excluding /1 woods and /10 silks). Challenging, but not too hard. I'm down to just six cards from '06 and seven from '08. '07's all done.

 

[predatorkj]

There are always bigger fish...that's just how it goes.The only thing you can do is buy and collect within your means.Bagwell is not in those sets but if he was I would honestly go about collecting his cards the same way I do with any other sets he is in.Get what I could when I could and if I was able to get them at good prices then that would be great.Sadly though his stuff always seems to go a little higher than even I would normally expect so these days I take nothing for granted and just assume everything will cost a fortune.That way I am pleasantly surprised.

 

[ThoseBackPages]

Great input from everyone.

Certain sets are different "animals" then most issues. A&G is one of them, Heritage is another.

i dont mind playing the "waiting game", but sometimes (especially with the less "popular" releases)
they never come around again.