Your Rules for Collecting

[psychomugs]

Given that I'll be between jobs soon and I've been burned out after the January U&S at BBY, I've began to become stricter in my choice of purchases. I've always said that I'll establish some rules, but many of them are broken too easily. So I was wondering if any of you guys have any rules to your collecting game.

I guess some rules I have are:
- If it's a blind buy, it must be fresh on RT and less than $20
- Don't buy used if it doesn't have an (easily attainable) slipcover
- No TV shows
- A slipcover ~doubles the odds of a purchase, especially if rare
- If I stumble upon something that I think is rare, don't buy it until I can check its going price/with members here

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