Thanks, Kelly and Jo!
I'm hoping there are a lot of new collectors who are trying to play catch-up and need some of those cards to complete their sets. While I'm selling 40 cards, I have a lot more that I'm keeping.
Eventually, I'll sell many of those, too, but I'm just not ready yet.
I'm still interested in HP cards, but that interest isn't as strong as it used to be. After I read Deathly Hallows, I felt done with the series. Even the lure of the remaining movies doesn't seem to be enough to keep my interest at the crazy level it once was. On a basic level, I'm moving on to other books, other movies, and other cards.
Then, there's the sheer number of HP sets and cards. The new 3D set will be Artbox's 11th HP set with premium inserts. Unless I made a mistake with my math (very likely, given the day I just had), we currently have 534 autos, costumes, props, filmcards, and case loaders (including SDCC cards). That's just too many, at least for me, and I feel kind of burned out. I understand that Arbox has produced so many sets because it's the company's most profitable (and possibly only profitable) license, but it's flooded the market with way too much HP. Artbox isn't the only company guilty of this. Just look at the Buffy and Star Trek licenses held by other manufacturers. IMHO, Buffy and Star Trek have been run into the ground, and Artbox is doing the same thing with HP.
I realized that I don't look at my cards quite as often as I used to, and when I do look at them, I tend to focus on certain cards in each set. Yes, they're the props, variants, rarer cards, and my POAU filmcard set.
I'm also keeping all my POA and POAU cards, since I enjoy those the most. Isn't it interesting that those are the first two sets Artbox made, when it was all so new? I'm tired of the great numbers of cards in each set, the repeats, and the generic student cards.
Money is also an issue. I'm just not interested in most of the common cards and I can't compete for the variants. There are other cards and sets which are new and fun for me, so I've been going after those cards. Case in point is the new Upper Deck Spectrum of Stars set. It's mostly a baseball set, but there's a subset of autos from a lot of 80s rockers -- Vince Neil (Motley Crue), Warrant, Twisted Sister, and more. True, that's definitely not everyone's cup of tea, but I had an absolute blast collecting the autos. A real plus is that I picked up the 16 pack-pulled autos for the price of one box (which has two inserts).
Like you, Kelly, I will continue to collect and love HP. I'm just going to be more picky about the cards I buy.
