Well this has been very eye-opening for me. I know it's a personal preference but I thought so many more people would want matching numbers. For me, I love that my CD DD years and my PS anniversary editions match and my SST Paul Tremblay books match, and my Joe Lansdale SST books match, and my Suntups all match. I don't think they need to match each other, but as sets it's something I'd really want. I bought three Vintage Horror books from Centipede and the first two matched (Jerad matched it automatically) so when I bought the third one I thought he'd do that again. It didn't match and I didn't email him to complain but it was a bummer.
And I love lower numbers but I would never pay more for them.
But seeing all these responses really makes me ease down off the need to match numbers. If you all don't care, maybe I shouldn't care as much.
Except for my Suntups. Don't f**k with my Suntups.