Regrets, I have a few ….

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

My only regret is I haven't earned enough income to build the collection I want to leave to my kids. My collection is substantial but not perfect. Yet...

That is the beauty of collecting

Hopefully your kids enjoy it

Mine do not have the same passion as I for them

[jchcollins]

Very few, because historically things I sell or get rid of fund new purchases and I look at it like well, I wouldn't have these cards here had I not sold some other ones...

But they are there, if passive. E92 Dockman Cy Young EX I bought at a show for around $500 in the early 2000's. Not even sure what I sold it for. About 2 years ago I sold a super nice PSA 5 '53 Satchel Paige before the bubble for probably less than half of what it would go for now.

As for cards I passed up, I know I walked past untold Jordan rookies at shows in the 2000's that were priced at something we would consider laughable now. But I never was into basketball, so hard to truly regret that one. As a kid at 90's shows, I saw a few nice '52 Topps Mantles at about the 5k range. But I might as well have asked my parents for a trip to the moon...

[yanks87]

In 2009 I sold off almost all of my T206's, which wasn't a huge number, maybe 60-70 of them because I needed the money to ship paintings to my first solo gallery show, and also to pay for the family to fly down for the opening. I sold it to a board member, (can't remember who though) for $1500. What stings was the fact that there were a BUNCH of Hall of Famers in there, including all the Mathewson's, Walter Johnson portraits and others. I have reacquired most of them back at a higher price of course, but I would have LOVED to have kept them all.

so it goes.

[scmavl]

I let my '52 Mantle go a few months before the pandemic AT A LOSS. There aren't many cards I get sick thinking about, but that was one. I kept trying to trade back into another one, with no luck. But just yesterday, its replacement arrived: a better-centered-but-more-worn copy in the same grade (PSA 1). It cost me A LOT in trade, although I luckily didn't have all that much in the cards I traded. But most importantly, that hole in my collection is filled. Values be damned, I'm happy.

[JeremyW]

Originally Posted by scmavl

I let my '52 Mantle go a few months before the pandemic AT A LOSS. There aren't many cards I get sick thinking about, but that was one. I kept trying to trade back into another one, with no luck. But just yesterday, its replacement arrived: a better-centered-but-more-worn copy in the same grade (PSA 1). It cost me A LOT in trade, although I luckily didn't have all that much in the cards I traded. But most importantly, that hole in my collection is filled. Values be damned, I'm happy.

Let's see it.

[scmavl]

Originally Posted by JeremyW

Let's see it.

Well Brian, "better condition" is debatable. But I like it more. A little centering goes a long way.

Card I let go of



New card

[Exhibitman]

New one looks better. You done good!

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by scmavl

Well Brian, "better condition" is debatable. But I like it more. A little centering goes a long way.

Card I let go of



New card

Nice new card.

[ASF123]

Originally Posted by scmavl

Well Brian, "better condition" is debatable. But I like it more. A little centering goes a long way.

Card I let go of



New card

"A little centering??" Amazing that we've become so obsessed with centering that that's the focus rather than the massive, stock-breaking crease and whatever else is going on above his right eye. The photo looks like Mick is looking at it thinking "What the hell is that, why is it hovering so close to me, and is it potentially dangerous?"

Yeah, I'd say the new one looks better.

[yanks87]

Originally Posted by scmavl

I let my '52 Mantle go a few months before the pandemic AT A LOSS. There aren't many cards I get sick thinking about, but that was one. I kept trying to trade back into another one, with no luck. But just yesterday, its replacement arrived: a better-centered-but-more-worn copy in the same grade (PSA 1). It cost me A LOT in trade, although I luckily didn't have all that much in the cards I traded. But most importantly, that hole in my collection is filled. Values be damned, I'm happy.

If your biggest regrets ends up with a better card, and that card happens to be a '52 Mantle, buddy you are living right!