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Originally Posted by pappyzan

TLDR: collections can be profitable

Was slow to jump on the collections train, but here's what I've completed over the past month, including total mission costs and what the resulting set of cards sold for. Collections listed in order of completion. Cards were sold unless specifically noted that cards were kept. All PP listed as profit includes the 10% AH fee.

Hit Parade
Cost: 77,349PP
Card: Ichiro Suzuki
Profit: None, kept card

Leftys and Righties
Cost: 11,502PP
Card: Lefty Gomez
Profit: 15,497PP

St.Louis Browns: The St. Louis Years
Cost: 24,133PP
Card: George Sisler
Profit: 13,666PP

LIVE Philadelphia
Cost: 12,804PP
Card: Lenny Dykstra
Profit: 7,760PP

Charlie O's Oakland A's
Cost: 76,590PP
Card: Vida Blue
Profit: None, kept card

BRAVES COLLECTION
Cost: 61,770PP
Primary Card: John Smoltz
Profit: None, kept Smoltz card (sold all other cards from this collection)

SEATTLE COLLECTION
Cost: 69,601PP
Primary Card: Kazuhiro Sasaki
Profit: -11,102PP
Should have made about a 12K profit here, but accidentally quick-sold the Mike Schooler card.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX COLLECTION
Cost: 44,062PP
Primary Card: Ed Walsh
Profit: None, kept Walsh card (sold all other cards from this collection)

LIVE Detroit
Cost: 2,738PP
Card: Harry Heilmann
Profit: 4,731PP

LIVE Oakland
Cost: 18,665PP
Card: Eddie Plank
Profit: 6,084PP

WASHINGTON SENATORS/MINNESOTA TWINS COLLECTION
Cost: 55,065PP
Primary Card: Johan Santana
Profit: 34,017PP

Total spent for Ichiro, Blue, Smoltz and Walsh (cards that were kept): 259,771PP
Total profit on all other collections: 70,653PP (should be just over 90k but accidentally quick-sold Schooler card...)

Theoretically could clear an additional 810k PP (900 * 10% AH fee) if Ichiro, Blue, Smoltz and Walsh were sold.
So, 810,000 - 259,771 + 70,653 = 620,882PP would be TOTAL PROFIT if ALL CARDS were sold.

So, these collections have the opportunity to be pretty profitable for those who do them.

You're telling me that, over the course of the last month, you found reasonable deals on 91 Hank, 89 Faber, the two Appling Diamonds, all the Twins silvers, all the Ichiro cards, all the other White Sox, Seattle, Charlie O, Braves, etc. diamonds and golds? All those? How frequently did you monitor the AH?