Thanks for the responses. To answer the questions:
1. I worked on this set between 3-4 years. It would have taken probably another 5 years, except I ran into a huge bit of luck when I found a collector who gave up on the set and he sold me about $1000 BV worth of the set for $200. No real reason that I started it, except that I had a couple of the cards and thought it would be a nice challenge to complete. Now that I have it, I'm really proud of it.
2. The hardest card to get was actually a common, #608 Karl Rhodes. I was down to about 80 cards or so left and I had actually located every card except that one. Finally, after trolling Ebay night and day for 3 months, it was included in a lot. I needed 5 or 6 other cards from the lot, so I made sure I won that lot.
3. The most I paid for any one card was the 2 Will Clark cards. I was down to under 10 cards left and I just said heck with it and ponied up. I paid $23 for each Will Clark.
4. As for fakes, I did not ever purchase a fake, though I knew about them and have seen a few. I'm always careful checking my cards, but a fake of this set is quite easy to detect. First off, the transferred FDI logo is never put into the card seamlessly. A good card you can rub your thumb over it and the only thing you feel is the logo inscription. You can always feel the slightly raised edges of a fake. And most fakes, the transferred logo is either slightly off place or has some clipping issues on the edge from the trimming. The foil is nearly impossible to remove without damaging it. Most times when people fall for a fake from this set, it's because the scammer puts it in a case where you can't actually get a good look at the logo. But actually taking the card out always tells the truth.
Thanks again for viewing my set.
