Best decisions/biggest regrets as autograph collectors?

[Lucas00]

Originally Posted by homerunhitter

The best decision I made was selling my balls! My signed ROMLBs that is! I sold them before they could fade! (Which we all known they will do over time) same with signed bats, the sharpie always bleed into the wood over time. Or just faded!

Next up I’m in the process of selling off my signed 8x10 collection as the resale value on them sucks! Will be happy to just get what I can get for them and just move on from them. In regards to signed 8x10 photos, As the old saying goes, ain’t no one got time for that! (Really no one in the hobby collects them anymore it seems)

Period flats are just superior in every way to any other medium. Balls fade (I don't know how they are so popular when you can almost see the fading occur in near real time, it's depressing in a sense to me). Reprint photos aren't original. Bats are large and hard to read much of the time.

While postcards, vintage notebook/autos on paper material last nearly forever (not so much these days with modern pens, but more so fountain pen era and prior). We have documents written on paper from the 11th century that look like they could've been written yesterday.