So, what is a card set that you collected that you've come to accept you will never complete? Perhaps the price of some inserts are too high, maybe it has a one-of-one card in the set, maybe it's just too rare a set. But for whatever reason you know you'll never be able to fully collect the entire thing. Do you have a set like that?

Some folks would say that it is not complete until you have a master set however others say the set is complete when i say it is and are happy with that.

A set i seem to have had a part set of forever is the James Bond art & images set which is 22 cards and i have about half of them.

At one time I would have said you need every card in the set and promos. The hobby is now so expensive it is diffivult to complete. In many situations you have to be a case buyer to complete the saet.

When I first got back into card collecting one of the first old sets I started was the 1953 World on Wheels. I quickly put together the 160 card set, but even though I have some of the 161-180 cards, I pretty much have accepted I wont finish this one. Too expensive, and these cards just hardly ever pop up.

The one I will most likely never complete is the Terminator 2 set by Filmcardz. I've completed the autographs, need 1 relic and the one card I will probably never own. The FilmFX Wear card #FX1. Only 30 were produced and have zero interest paying $1,000 + for it. It comes up every so often, but at ridiculous prices.

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Originally posted by Chilly55:
The one I will most likely never complete is the Terminator 2 set by Filmcardz. I've completed the autographs, need 1 relic and the one card I will probably never own. The FilmFX Wear card #FX1. Only 30 were produced and have zero interest paying $1,000 + for it. It comes up every so often, but at ridiculous prices.

I'm sure I've told this before, but I'm still annoyed that many years ago I bought a master set of this on eBay -- All the cards were in sheets in the binder, and I asked the seller to remove the cards from the sheets/binder, but they refused.

When the cards arrived the FX1 card slipped under the binder ring and was badly dented. I returned the set and was never able to get the FX1 card again.

The set that I may never complete is Mars Attacks. I was putting together a low grade set many years ago -- then people started grading these cards and overnight the prices of low grade cards increased by about 10x.

I haven't looked in a long time, so maybe it is feasible to get a set of these now.

The only master sets I completed were a couple of the early Game of Thrones sets. The later sets just got too complex and with far too many levels of parallel which amounted to the exact same cards with a foil addition in various colours or a number edition. Add in sketches and incentive cards, some of which were nearly impossible to find and I soon gave up and was content to just collect the cards I liked.

Before that I tried collating several Xena sets, but those were tricky too. I will still pick up the odd card when I see one from those sets, but only what I like, not for some master set-building plan. It's much more enjoyable to be selective, rather than try to chase down everything in a set....and MUCH cheaper.