Remorse

[T206Collector]

These are the ones you identified that I experience, in order of most pain:

1. Sell an item for fair market value and one year later the fair market value has doubled
2. Realization of overpayment soon after a purchase
3. Realization that the buyer pool contains no one that agrees with my asking price.
4. Your hobby focus is fluid and when you sell an item, you are fine, but later you have an uncontrollable urge to purchase the same item again for a lot more than your paid initially.

[bobbyw8469]

I have done #1 so many times it's not even funny

[Peter_Spaeth]

My biggest regrets are cards I did NOT buy.

[Bill77]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

My biggest regrets are cards I did NOT buy.

This and over paying for what I do buy.

[conor912]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

My biggest regrets are cards I did NOT buy.

Same here.

[rjackson44]

frank is funny

[clydepepper]

I occasionally 'do a number two' from the first list....

...but frequently do numbers three and four from the second list.


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[samosa4u]

For me it's the following:

Buyer's Remorse

1. Realization of overpayment soon after a purchase

Seller's Remorse

2. You sell an item for fair market value and one year later the fair market value has doubled

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

My biggest regrets are cards I did NOT buy.

Bingo! There are cards I didn't buy that I would really like to have owned and now know I will not ever own because they got to freakin' expensive, then there are cards that I thought were good investments but for whatever reason I didn't buy them. A dozen of the right card purchases 30 years ago (when I was busy chasing mainstream postwar cards) and I would be retired today. But in the words of the great philosopher Schlemiel of Mumzer, whadayagonnado?

[bmattioli]

Remorse? I was told by my ex to come and get my stuff because she was moving. Thought I had the time and was told they are all gone.. GONE.. Saddest day in my life.. Remorse I didn't call earlier..

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by bmattioli

Remorse? I was told by my ex to come and get my stuff because she was moving. Thought I had the time and was told they are all gone.. GONE.. Saddest day in my life.. Remorse I didn't call earlier..

Better than if someone had stolen your stuff and left your ex I suppose.

[hcv123]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Bingo! There are cards I didn't buy that I would really like to have owned and now know I will not ever own because they got to freakin' expensive, then there are cards that I thought were good investments but for whatever reason I didn't buy them. A dozen of the right card purchases 30 years ago (when I was busy chasing mainstream postwar cards) and I would be retired today. But in the words of the great philosopher Schlemiel of Mumzer, whadayagonnado?

Really relate to a lot of that! More sellers remorse than buyers remorse.
Some specifics:

Bought a rare test issue in an auction many years ago - sold shortly after for about 2k. 10 years later the exact same card (the guy who purchased from me died) sells at auction for 23K

Bought a huge Clemente collection with a really nice 1968 3D - right around the time PSA started. I sold it raw for $6500 and was really happy about it till the guy I sold it to got it graded (PSA 9!) and a week after I sold it to him it was a 30K card.

Mom passed in 2008 - I got a little $$ as a result that I wanted to put into collectibles. I was SUPER close to pulling the trigger on a PSA 8.5 Clemente rookie for 10k - nuff said - bought some freakin comic books that have barely appreciated instead!

Passed up the most incredible 58 Kahns Clemente for ~$500 (very likely the one residing in a PSA 6 holder today)


While I have paid more at times than I believed to be fair market and felt remorseful about doing so, Almost every time I have been grateful to have "overpaid" at the time for something that today would be "stolen" for the price I originally paid.

[brianp-beme]

I believe at some point I upgraded my 1911 Obak Morse of the Tacoma club, so I guess you can say I have some Re-Morse in my collecting past.

Brian (perhaps beginning to feel pre-remorse about submitting this post)

[Pilot172000]

I have both buyers and sellers remorse regularly. To the point my wife and kids can tell you certain cards I regretted selling years ago.

[Bestdj777]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

My biggest regrets are cards I did NOT buy.

Same here. I once considered selling my entire collection and using the money to hoard lower grade 52 Topps Mantles. Realistically, I probably could have picked up 6-8 additional ones had I done so. It would have been fantastic having them during the last bubble when low grade ones were bringing $10,000 a piece...

[ullmandds]

REMORSE! I have some!

Remorse over selling my childhood collection to buy a beat up 77' camaro

Remorse over trying to "invest" in baseball cards...it hasn't worked terribly well overall. Buying the cards I like has worked out much better!

[todeen]

Opportunity lost remorse. Not often, but occasionally. About 3-4 years ago I had to sell a card to buy a new object of affection. It took longer than I expected for the card to sell. When it did, I missed purchasing my "want" by 1 day! (a PSA authenticated b/w photo of Ernie Lombardi (signed) and Joltin' Joe at the 1939 WS). Then I had neither my previous card or my new desire.

[egri]

Like a few others have mentioned, I have less regret over items I’ve bought than on items I didn’t dig deeper on. When I started my project, one of the high numbers was listed at a price that I thought the seller was California Dreaming at. It sold (this was in late 2014) and I haven’t seen another since. If I could get a mulligan on that one I’d take it in a heartbeat. On the other hand, there have been some cards I was outbid on that later (sometimes days, sometimes years) I was able to snag a better looking one for less.