its a long story and i really dont feel like going through it again as ive told it a million times but heres a link to it if anyone is interested:
http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/mes...&enterthread=y
just scroll down to where i posted there. But after that huge trade it was pretty easy from there to get all the ones (except for the extreme rares lol). So anyways i guess a lot of luck , and also being at the right place at the right time was how i started collecting this stuff, and was able to get a lot of it without having to spend a fortune. :-)