Mistake Buys...

[novakjr]

I was picking up some singles for my 1938 Churchman Boxing set on ebay. I wasn't paying close enough attention to the boxers themselves, and focused more on the numbers. I ended up accidentally buying one of the Churchman "footballers" and one "Kings of Speed" instead. Boy was I surprised when I opened those envelopes... At least the "kings of speed" was Howard Hughes, so it was worth holding onto.

[7nohitter]

I was about 12 and at the Wellfleet Flea Market looking through binders....well, AMAZINGLY the idiot seller was selling two Dean Chance cards for $0.75. I grabbed them as fast as I could...clearly the seller did not realize that chance was wearing a REDS hat on an Indians card (1970).....Fast forward and I was the idiot....didn;t realize the Indians ever wore that style 'C'

[Volod]

Originally Posted by 7nohitter

I was about 12 and at the Wellfleet Flea Market looking through binders....well, AMAZINGLY the idiot seller was selling two Dean Chance cards for $0.75. I grabbed them as fast as I could...clearly the seller did not realize that chance was wearing a REDS hat on an Indians card (1970).....Fast forward and I was the idiot....didn;t realize the Indians ever wore that style 'C'

Indians and Reds used near identical red caps from 1967 to 1970, so an easy mistake to make, but you can't fool an honest man.

[mintacular]

I feel like I've bought '57 Chico Fernandez (tough series) about 10 times. I do a lot of upgrading, etc. so apparently I continue to buy his card and then later sell/trade it. Last I looked I don't have the card (again) and so I guess I need to purchase his card yet again...

[ALR-bishop]

Being careless about which ones I had of this ( 3 DOB variations) and the Haywood Sullivan (also 3 variations), I ended up buying extras of the easiest versions of those two cards before accurately running down the tougher 3d variation of each. At least the extra Spahns were disposable, not so much Hayward

[jefferyepayne]

I was at a big card show and running from booth to booth picking up reasonably cheap '50s baseball cards. I was checking my lists but not scratching off the ones I was purchasing, relying instead on my mind to recall which ones I had already purchased that day. As you can probably guess, when I got home I had quite a few duplicates and also had managed to buy one card three times.

Time for some memory exercises.....

jeff