Top Tip: Starting a Brand Collection

So, a lot of people decide to start collecting brands after they've been SS for a while. I personally collect Hot Buys and the occasional LE/RARE if I see them for cheap. However, a lot of people don't know where to start collecting the older HB's that aren't in store anymore, same with any other rare brand.
The easiest thing to do is look on the broadcast list. Click the little speaker-phone symbol to get there. Here's how you do that:

Now, all you have to do is look along this list and find messages saying 'hotbuys', 'LE', 'DKNY', 'RAREs' or whatever it is you're looking for. A lot of the time, the so-called 'cheap sales' have HB's up for three hundred plus.
I'd say, set yourself a price limit on how much you're willing to pay. Do you really want to spend all your money on one shirt? I recommend from ten to thirty/fifty stardollars to start out, then when your collection gets bigger, think about spending more.
With LE, add say... fifty SD's onto the starting price, that's probably how much you should be willing to spend. Same with Antidote and RAREs.