Remorse

[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

[pawpawdiv9]

or you realize by the time you hit your 70's, theres nobody to pass down your cards to.
So, you quickly hit the dating sites, and realized no 70+ yr old women is getting pregnant. So, if i read about a dirty old grandpa, its defintely gonna be a Net54 member.

[Corporal Lance Boil]

Well, definitely buyer's remorse, and it's usually #2 due to #3.

[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.

[pitchernut]

First part of #3 leads to #2 and ends with the last part of #3

[dabigyankeeman]

I experience STUPIDITY remorse, or LACK OF FORESIGHT remorse I guess.

Back in the early to mid 80's I had a lot of basketball, football, and ice hockey cards and it was thought that back then they would never be collectible like baseball cards and never have much value. I sold some real cheap, threw some away, and I am talking stuff that would have a ton of value today. Also did that with some baseball cards more recently that would have had a lot of value too.

How about CONDITION remorse too. When I first got into collecting around 1979 I was "mentored" by a friend who had very little money and he brainwashed me into his way of thinking which was "Why buy a card in mint condition when you can save a fortune by buying one in bad condition since the big thing is to own a card of that person". This was at a time I was fine financially and cards were cheaper anyway and I could have been buying Mantles and so on in mint condition, and it never hit me that he was like that because he had no money, so I could have had a collection worth a fortune today, but no............

Oh well, I cant change the past, and now that I know better its too late as most of my buying days are over as I am a really old fart now!!!

[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.

[dabigyankeeman]

How about NOT PULLING THE TRIGGER IMMEDIATELY remorse.

I was at a card show Saturday, and I saw two cards I liked and wanted at one dealers table. I figured let me walk around a little and see what else is in the room. Nothing else, so I went back to the dealer.

I was 10 feet from his table when someone else walked up, beating me there by a few seconds, and of course he bought the two cards I wanted!!!

I should know from experience to buy when you see something you want and its priced right, because its so easy to lose it later as I did!!

[irv]

Remorse for not purchasing a 1956 Topps PSA 4 Mantle that was offered to me at a very reasonable price!
I hemmed and hawed too long so the seller, rightfully, sold it before I had made up my mind. I was given more than enough time but I just couldn't pull the trigger based on the U.S./CDN exchange rate at the time and the fact that I struggled with putting that money towards my 52 Topps collection.

Like a fool, I torture myself by looking at it occasionally.