People's opinions on sealed/personal copies

[davidw]

Hi everyone

I was looking over pictures of people's collections before and it got me thinking about the practice of sealed copies and personal copies - simply the art of buying multiple copies - I was just wondering what peoples opinion was on it? would you say it is only for serious (anal?) collectors or is it just second nature for you?

Personally I've never done it just for the simple reason it's never really crossed my mind, I've never thought "oh I need another of these" maybe because it just seems a bit alien to me, but also depending on the CE in question it could turn out to be very expensive which would be out of question anyway really since CE's are normally at least £70

Anyway i'd be interested to see peoples opinions on it, whether you do it or not
any thoughts really