Hey mate, welcome on board. You sound like a similar collector to me. Unfortunately for us, full sets of base cards really arent worth that much. Great to have and fun to collect though - at the end of the day, thats what its all about for me. Put it this way, I just bought a full set of 95-96 Fleer Ultra series 1 for 99c off ebay
Yeah mate, welcome, and collect sets for the fun of it and for the chase of completing, unfortunately you can usually make more selling individual stars from the base sets than the set as a whole, people don't like to pay too much for postage on heavy sets maybe I dunno.