Earth, Wind and FIRE!

My Uncanny X-Men 1-201 run is waiting on a few books to come back that are in my "100 business day turnaround" batch. I'm the 2nd most complete set in the group, and I'm closing in on the top 10 scores... and impatience is a terrible thing.

This has led me to some recent purchases to upgrade some JB run issues from 9.6s to 9.8s, and the spending curve is getting steeper to upgrade my books. I've started doing "bang for the buck" score upgrades, combining information on the book's "value" versus price vs the point bump in my rank. If the price is X% under the alleged value and I can get Y% change in points on my existing book, the purchase is made.

Does anyone else put this much thought into their purchases for registered sets? I need to underscore this with the fact that I wouldn't be doing this if I wasn't a giant giant giant X-Men fan. As many people have said about collecting (and investing), "GO WITH WHAT YOU KNOW, AND NEVER BE CAUGHT HOLDING THE BAG UNLESS YOU LOVE WHAT'S INSIDE".

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