🦴 1st Edition Fossil Hunt 🦴- COMPLETED
Back in 2024, I decided I wanted a Fossil master set, having never completed it as a kid. To make it harder (and more expensive) on myself, I decided to only get 1st editions. About 30 months (and several price spikes) later, today I have finally completed it after cracking a Dragonite slab and completing the 63 card collection.
I typically picked everything up from eBay or Cardmarket and was in no rush, biding my time to pick up great deals on HP cards that I felt were good binder copies. I kept it all in a spreadsheet to see how much it would total:
Fun facts:
- Excluding shipping, the set has cost me £1022, with £756 of that on the holo cards.
- Dragonite (£150) and Gengar (£175) were the most expensive cards, with Ekans being the cheapest (20p).
- Incorrectly listed eBay items were a win, with some listings failing to acknowledge the card being 1st edition and me being able to snap them up quickly. (Hypno (£16) and Aerodactyl non-prerelease (£20) were my best wins from this.)
- A special shout out to the vendor at a cardshow in 2024 who sold me a mint holo Ditto for £25 because "no one wants the old stuff".
u/weeble182 — 7 days ago