General Forum

Based on your hobby experience, do you feel there are more set builders or more team collectors out there?  I've been selling large lots on ebay geared toward set builders but I'm wondering if I should shift towards selling team lots instead.  Team lots seem to sell at a higher relative price per card.

Interesting question, on here TCDB I feel there are more set builders.  At my LCS there are way more people who collect certain players.  There is also a big bunch at the LCS that just look collect the "Big" hits, they shall open packs in the store and just leave the base cards there and only take their hits.

Myself I have a few sets but that is mostly vintage stuff.  Nowadays I like to collect players and teams I like.

I'm 50 yrs old and collect Cubs, HOF/Stars, Vintage, Oddball & Inserts. I've never put together a complete set, though have bought a few low dollars 1980s complete sets.

I'm deterred by complete sets because I don't want to shell out the $$$ for the vintage high number cards. I'm annoyed enough when I have to shell out $20+ for some no name Cubs player from the 60's I don't want that pain x20. I do know plenty of guys that put together complete sets though. I'd wager that all of collect their favorite team too. 

I am in for anything Phillies & Yankees.

You know me.  Saints and Shaq.

In general probably more player collectors. I'm a team/player collector, but only collect specific players on the same teams I collect (with some small exceptions, I generally don't look for cards of players outside my teams). 

I know a few (non-flippers, pure PC) who collect rookies they like, no matter the team. Outside of that they tend to stick with one or two guys beyond their rookie season. I know someone who has an insane Adrian Peterson collection, but it is 99% rookie year. To each their own, but I'd like to have a collection spanning more of the career of the player and not just their first year (despite those cards usually being the most desireable, which I understand). 

I've tried to put together a handful of sets (include one modern Prizm parallel set I tried out of boredom) but it starts to get a bit exhausting for me trading good cards or paying money for players I just don't care about just to have them for the set. I'm not emotionally connected to it so I lose interest. 

I think more team and player collectors. It is getting harder and harder to complete even basic base sets now-a-days. Forget about attempting master sets now.

Judging by the sale prices of some teams in case breaks, I would definitely say team collectors.

Seems like there's lots of both. For baseball, I'm definitely a set builder, but for football, I'm building some sets, but I also collect any player that played for my alma mater. As for what I see on eBay, there is a good mix of both.

Things have changed over the years.

When my son and I started collecting (early 80s thought late 90s) only football.   It appeared everyone was doing sets.  We had 100s of completed sets.  When he quit I moved more to my Cornhuskers and only Topps sets.   Years later I give up on sets and only focuses on my Cornhuskers.

Now days it appears to me (by my trades/sales) people are doing more team and players with only a few finishing sets.  The ones they do not finish years ago.