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Posted By: Bill Todd

Okay, after seeing a couple of the stories on the "best finds" thread, I thought we'd go the other direction: the best deals you ever saw that you could have gone for, but passed up. (Note that to "qualify" for this thread, you have to have been able to take advantage of the deal--both financially and temporally.)

I'll go first.

1. At my first (and only) National, in Chicago (about 1998?) I walked in the door with $500 burning a hole in my pocket, and a want list a mile long. A guy at a table near the front had an L1 Johnson that he wanted $400 for. I passed, because it would have taken most of my bankroll.

2. Same show, at a table in the dim reaches of the back of the room, were 2 Hollands. The dealer wanted $70 for the pair. I only took one (for $37), because that's all I needed for my type set, and the other one was kind of beat.

Sigh.

Bill