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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 636613, member: 13650&quot;]I believe you are right.&nbsp; I would bet that for most sets out there, at any given time there are very few people looking for &#039;that particular set&#039; and who can also afford to buy the whole set.&nbsp;&nbsp; Most people like to put together their own set to their standards.&nbsp; So it drives the prices down.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I&#039;ve noticed this on MS Franklin half sets.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m putting one together myself, but I&#039;ve noticed some on ebay that looked really nice, for way too cheap and they did not sell.&nbsp;&nbsp; I say really cheap because I know to the penny what I have and what I will have in mine by the time I&#039;m done and it doesn&#039;t look like I would get it back on ebay if I wanted to sell as a set.&nbsp; Not even close.&nbsp; Which was surprising to me at first but as I said here, how much demand is there for complete sets?</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I&#039;ve also seen some really bad sets that looked like they were just thrown together.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know about you guys but it bothers me when people throw coins in an album and then don&#039;t line them up straight.&nbsp; It just looks like a mess when they&#039;re thrown in haphazardly.&nbsp;&nbsp; And then people try to sell them like that on top of it.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Some sets also have drastically different coins, as in some toned, some BU, different grades, some probably cleaned, some beat up.&nbsp;&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t buy a set like that.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I certainly wouldn&#039;t mind buying a partial set if it was a decent one for the grades I was going after.&nbsp;&nbsp; Or if it was something I wanted for the fun of it but didn&#039;t feel like spending a lot of time on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I&#039;m going to guess that 9 out of 10 sets, reguardless of grade, contain several problem coins that would have to be upgraded.&nbsp;&nbsp; A true premium set would be worth book price, IMO for the time it takes to put some of them together.&nbsp; The problem is, how to know that from an ebay auction?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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