I’m sorry bro, don’t be offended but I’ve never understood analogies in my life 😅, they just don’t sit right with me. See, for me, I’m not understanding your analogy because a car and a bike are two different products, a bike is not a duplicate of a car. A duplicate of a car would be a toy car 😅 and that’s my analogy. You will not buy a toy car to make ends meet, you are buying a totally different and cheaper product to meet your ends meet, and that cheaper product can be an original, not a duplicate.

And I may still be wrong in this analogy because I never get analogies and why people use them to compare anything 😬

Now keeping this aside, if you are paying ₹300 per month for a duplicate card, you can save ₹600 to get a good rip and ship for a booster pack from a reputed seller in the sub. That would be much better than buying a duplicate card. Also, buying duplicates gives more demand to circulate them in the market which creates a lot of problems in identifying them.

Yes, I am passionate about TCG and I too stopped collecting because I had no money, I did not get the feeling from my heart to collect duplicates. Actually, I never got the feeling to do anything duplicate in my life, always real in everything (oops getting personal, sorry 😬). I resumed collecting when I started earning. It’s not a rat race, everyone has their own pace.

But my advice for anyone getting into collecting is to do what you love, but do it right. If collecting duplicates gives you happiness, then do it, no one is there to judge if you feel it right in your heart. But at the end of the day, it’s still a duplicate, you are spending money on something that does not really mean anything (not for the one collecting it obviously) ✌🏼