Something that greatly satisfies me in the first movie – Peter doesn’t seem to know the Collector. It was Gamora who knew where to find him, that he would know what the Orb is, and that he would take it from them. Peter? Had no idea.
And that means that in all the years Peter was with the Ravagers, Yondu never once made a deal with this freaky guy who collects living beings as if they are possessions.
You can’t tell me that Yondu didn’t know the guy. I’m sure the Collector has a reputation in whatever underworld the galaxy has, and even while Yondu had to ask the Broker first for information, that surely was more because there are multiple people who would be after the Orb, and not because he had never heard about the Collector.
It just makes me super happy that despite being a lying, deceiving and stealing guy, Yondu draws the line somewhere.