Card(s) you wish you purchased

[todeen]

I grew up in the junk wax era, so I have been able to buy every card I thought was cool. But I wish I had turned to vintage earlier. In particular, I wish I had grabbed the Cal Ripken Jr 82 Topps Traded when it was a dime. I spent enough on modern as a high school kid that I could have actually bought some quality low grade post war.

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[Frankish]

Oh man, this thread is painful to read. It's hard to believe cards were so cheap, especially when they appeared so expensive at the time.

Prices aside, the big regrets for me are generally are the cards I've never seen for sale again. A big part of my collection is now Japanese baseball cards from the 1930s-60s. I can vividly recall at least a dozen cards I thought about buying, didn't pull the trigger, and have never seen for sale again. And I don't even care about the condition!

The production run on some of these cards was very low, as is my estimate of the survival rate. But one hope I hold out is that with increased cards prices and media exposure, caches of these cards will be discovered in old Japanese houses or storerooms or whatever and make it into the market. It might be the one upside I see to the great increase in prices....

[Piratedogcardshows]

Way too many to be honest. The one that hurts the most is a 1908 team postcard of the Richmond Colts team. I'll never forget that one as I just started collecting again and didn't know how tough it truly was. Uggggggg.

[rats60]

Like some have said, there are a lot of cards that I wished I chased in the 80s instead of spending my disposable income on other things. The one that really stands out was not buying a 1952 Topps Mid+High run from the Rosen find. I was finishing my t206 set and already had a decent Ex-Mt 1952 Topps set. I never realized how addicted the hobby would become to numbers on a slab. 3k for Mantles that are now pushing a million dollars in a PSA 8 slab.

The other more recent one was a card that I was actively trying to buy off of eBay, an Exquisite LeBron James RPA /99. I kept getting sniped for under 2k. If ever there was a card I should have just over paid for, that is it. It is now a million dollar card.

[esd10]

I have one I regret the most it was about 10 years ago at a card show at vets memorial in Columbus a dealer was selling a t206 green portrait of cy young vg-ex ungraded for $350 and I thought long and hard but didn't pull the trigger.