I bought Star Wars the Force Unleashed II CE for 20 dollars brand new
Game was terrible (well just too short) but I quite liked the CE
BUT it was really the steelbook that came with it that got to me, I just thought it was beautiful, not cool looking, not nice, but truly beautiful
After that I was buying some other games on ebay and saw the same metal cases available for other games
And so I decided to try and get a steelbook for every game I was going to purchase in the Fall 2011 release window (That included Dead Island & Saints Row the third

)
In order to complete the above task, I had to innovate how I ebayed.
Went off book as you might say and visited foreign ebays for the first time. Starting talking to random people around the world and just fell in loving with collecting steelbooks
Granted those early days were bad. Paid way too much for FS steelies but you live and learn. That's just a part of collecting....or you know life