Biggest regrets?
 

I've been out of the game for a couple years, recently got the itch to jump back in. Great to see the market so strong for vintage and modern.

I noticed that I last posted in 2013 when I was liquidating my Playoff Contenders RC Ticket Auto collection. I threw up a bit in my mouth looking up recent sales on these... I had Manning, Brady, Brees, Peppers, Fitz, Rodgers, etc. All BGS 9 or better with the exception of Manning and Peppers (8).

I see a Brady BGS 9 with the same exact subs as mine sold earlier this summer for $12,600. I think I sold mine for ~$2500?

All part of the game, I know... Sold them all for more than I paid so I should be happy but it still... These things appreciated more than Amazon stock!

The money went to a good cause and I replaced most of them with a non-auto RC but man do I wish I could have a do-over!

Anyone else feel like sharing their biggest "oops"?

Too many to list....

1965 Namath rookie PSA 7 sold for $2,000
1953 Topps Mantle PSA 5 for $1,100
1954 Hank Aaron rookie SGC 7 for $1,750
come to mind

If you sell enough cards, you will remember the ones that blew up after they left your possession.

I regret ones I didn't buy much more than I regret ones I sold that, in hindsight, I should have kept.

Sold a stack of Jordan rookies back in the day for 20 bucks a pop.

I probably don't regret that deal as much as the guy who traded me that stack of Jordan Rookies and a big pile of other 1986 Fleer Basketball Stars and Rookies for a stack of 50's-60's Washington Redskins football cards. I mean they were stars, but they aren't worth much more now, then they were back in the late 80's.

I hope he still has those Redskins. I hear that Eddie LeBaron is about to hit the roof.:eek:

Good stuff. Sorry if I brought back any bad memories.

Stack of Jordans @ $20 ea... Wow.

Speaking of Jordans and cards you regret not buying more than the ones you sold... When I was about 13 I was at a show with my dad and I really wanted to buy a nice looking Fleer Jordan RC for $100. For me at the time, that was ten weeks savings from mowing the lawn. He talked me out of spending so much on one card so I bought two boxes and some loose packs of early 90s junk. To this day I tell myself it might have been a counterfeit to feel better about it. :)

yup, me too. And all 3 were cards that would've finished a set I never ended up finishing

'33 Goudey Lajoie PSA 3, for $10k. Not sure if this would've finished '33 or '34 ;)

'15 CJ Jackson in PSA 3, for $5k.
'52 Topps Mantle in PSA 3, for $5k.

Just realized all 3 were PSA 3's, and I was holding out for a better version. Better I shouldn't have been a condition whore and used these to upgrade from. Lesson learned.

Sold these over 15 years ago...

1914 Cracker Jack Joe Jackson PSA 3
1933 Goudey Babe Ruth Red PSA 4
1939 Play Ball Ted Williams PSA 8
(2) 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle PSA 2

This card right here! :mad:

Don't know what I was thinking, other than $460 dollars U.S. was a lot of money and money I could put towards my 52 Topps collection, but once I finally inquired about it then finding out he sold it after waiting for me to make up my mind for a couple of months, I immediately regretted not acting sooner!

This same seller also had a very nice, centered, #276 Jim Wilson in his auction that I had saved in my watch list but forgot about it.

It went for a whopping $14 dollars and would have easily graded a 6, imo.

Live and learn as they say. :(

My only big regret in the hobby is selling my 1948 leaf Larry Doby PSA 2 that was perfectly centered with good focus. I sold it at a time that I needed the money for other things in life.

1951 bowman mantle
 

Passed on a 1951 Bowman Mantle psa 6 for $4,000 about 10 years ago.

Thanks for the memories....
 

Back in the day, I sold 3 mint cards to help pay for a wedding ring for my first wife.

The cards were a 1957 Topps Ted Williams, Frank Robinson, and a beauty of a 1969 Topps Reggie Jackson.

So I don't have the cards anymore, neither do I have the wife or the ring.....should have just kept the cards as I enjoyed them more.

first wife

Hahaha

... and second.

Eight OPC Gretzky RC's just after we had our second daughter. Needed the cash at the time.

After Jean-Michel Basquiat died in 1988, I remember thinking this guy is going to be a super important painter and I should buy some of his work.

I didn't.:(

Been collecting since 69/74/77 depending on when you'd count from.

Sooo many regrets, mostly about not buying things. When I started 52 Mantles hadn't gone over 1000 yet. T206 Hof ers who weren't Cobb were usually $10 in VG, or even a bit better. Topps Orr rookie was 100... 100!! that was insane for a hockey card at the time. Goudey Ruths were around 100. Aaron rookie 60...


I'm going to go be sad and play some games on my phone now....

Bought yahoo as an ipo for 33.5 100 shairs, sold it in 15 min at 44.5 made 1000 in 15 min. 🙀 worst 1000 i ever made.