Collecting Mistakes

[bnorth]

Been collecting since the mid/late 80s. I have loved error cards of all kinds since I started collecting. So for me it was buying a ton of expensive error cards that turned out to be altered junk.

[brunswickreeves]

Premature selling of Ruth before the run up, and overpaying for Jackie at the height of the run up are painful.

[Seven]

I passed on a PSA 4 1951 Bowman Mickey Mantle that was being sold here on the board, not too long before Covid, as I thought I couldn't justify the purchase at the time (funds were tight). The Covid runup on all things vintage, killed me. Will eventually be able to afford one, abeit in a lower grade.

I went back and fourth on buying some modern cards, namely Ohtani rookies when he was having the down season, hindsight is 20/20 but I could have made a pretty penny off of them. More of a regret than a mistake though.

[Yoda]

Too many to go public.

[Mark17]

Many mistakes, mostly selling stuff I should've held. The one that made me feel stupidest was when I was collecting GU bats. I logged onto ebay, ran my usual searches, and found what I thought was a gold mine. A beautiful Owen Bush GU bat that was ending in just a couple minutes. Well, I knew Owen was actually Donie Bush, the famous Tiger, so I hastily flew into action. I won it for about $250, which I thought was the steal of the year.

When it arrived, though, there was something amiss. My first clue is that it arrived in a medium flat rate USPS Priority Mail box. Turns out, it was a mini bat. I went back to the original listing and while it didn't actually say "mini bat," it didn't say anything intentionally misleading either. So I just kept it and sold it later at a loss, as a lesson learned.

[Touch'EmAll]

Many year ago I bought a '39 Ted Williams RC PSA 8 but centering side/side was bad (not quite bad enough for the "oc"). That was mistake #1.

Frustrated with myself I sold it through REA soon after - mistake #2. A very low bid got it and I ended up taking a bath.

[ullmandds]

None of us have a crystal ball, so I cannot include timing of the sale of cards on my hobby mistakes list. Esp since i regret practically one!

At a card show in nj in the early 80’s i bought a fake mayo lave cross for a few bucks. It didnt have a black back!

In college 90’ish i bought an obviously fake to me now fro joy uncut sheet for $150

Bought a fake t3 on ebay that turned out to be a color photo copy pasted onto a piece of wood. Not sure how that happened???? no

Ive been pretty lucky i guess.