Set collectors poll: Are parallels a separate set?

[bradlieus]

Question for those of you who are set collectors - do you collect base set or parallels, or both?

If both, do you combine them to try and make the best set possible (e.g. a set of 250, maybe 100 parallel and the rest base?)

 

[Matty4292]

Personally, when I do sets its just base and inserts NO parallels... Parallels are hard especially say 10/11 Donruss where they was 5 parallels (Base, Emerald, Sapphire, Ruby & Press Proof) Which, if collecting parallels blew the Donruss set out to 3000 cards.

Forget that.

 

[sgt_pepper]

if theres a parallel set i'll focus on that and forget the base. if there are multiple tiers of parallels i'll go for the rarest one and forget about the rest.

 

[drobfan8]

They are definitely a seperate set.

I completed the 96/97 Flair Row 2, 1 and 0 sets but no way would I try to go for the legacies also and then and only then call it complete.

I've been going (very slowly) with the 03/04 Bowman Chrome Golds /50 but have never thought once about adding the base set, I would however consider going for the standard refractors /300 because they are just nice also

 

[taffster74]

I don't throw them away, nor do i really collect them but i definitely don't mix them in with base as parallels are a seperate card all together. About the only parallel sets I'm considering going for (when finances are healthier) are 1994-95 SP and SP championship die-cuts NBA and 2009 Score Glossy NFL as I already have a good majority of those sets as is.

 

[bjho852]

Do you mean a set of any given base cards and its parallel(s), or a set of "base" version of any given insert cards and its parallels?
If it is the former, I would collect parallels only (if with multiple tiers of parallels, I would collect the one that is within my budget). If it is the latter, I would mainly collect the "base" version only - the parallels would probably be too expensive for me to complete in most of these cases.

 

[bradlieus]

I mean a set of base cards and parallels - I've just started going for 5th anniversary parallels of 93-94 Hoops, for example.