So a few years ago I got a wild idea to try and complete the Golden Greats, Golden Nuggets, Glistening Gold and Hidden Gold chrome refractor SN99 sets. Seemed like it would be fun and how long could it take anyway. Many cards from these sets were on different sites and some available on TCDB so that was a plus. Card prices had not spiked and these were affordable. Well, I posted in April last year that I finally found the Jim Brown to complete the Golden Greats set. Slower than I expected, but this would be easy.
Well.... For some reason a good friend that I enjoy messaging every blue moon didn't want to just give me his Tom Brady (that was sky rocketing in price) and these cards just disappeared from eBay, Comc or anywhere. Then I got lucky and got a Tom Brady at a reasonable price and I was just needing one GN, two GG & three HG refractors and months went by. Then early December, someone posted about twelve of these cards and all six that I needed accross these three sets. Two days of auctions and all four of these sets are complete and scanned into the site for viewing enjoyment.
While I only collect a few sets (mostly parallel or inserts), this chase was immensely fun. And I was suprised how many sellers were rooting for me to finish this as I made offers on cards. I consider this a good day for the card collecting community as a whole.
And I just completed another set, but will post about that next week. Got to load images.
Hope you enjoy them, Greg
