Did I sell too early? You be the judge...

[Exhibitman]

Whenever i think of a few cards I've sold I throw up a little in my mouth. Best plan is to just not think about it at all...

[CobbSpikedMe]

I also sold my Trout rookies way too early. I sold all my Trouts years ago for around $150 total. It was a fair price at the time, but I wish I had held them. Why didn't I just keep one of the Topps Updates!!


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[Exhibitman]

My Bowman Draft has doubled since I bought it. Probably will sell it and finance a signed card instead, which is what I prefer for modern players anyway.

[ullmandds]

51 mantle vg-ex for less than 8K maybe 1 1/2 yrs ago
bunches of goudey ruths
e121 ruths
bunches of t206 cobbs
t206 rare backs

I think the answer is everything that I ever sold I sold too early!!!

[irv]

Thankfully I haven' sold anything that I have regretted but in hindsight, there are many that I wish I had of purchased but didn't because I thought things were on the pricey side and would eventually come down.

One that immediately comes to mind was a PSA 10 Sidney Crosby RC that I could have had for $1,000 CDN. A thousand was a thousand and I thought my wife would kill me.

Those cards are currently going for around the $5,000 CDN mark now in a BGS 9.5. and even higher in the PSA 10's.

I also regret, instead of going for 52 commons starting back in 2016, that I didn't grab the highs instead, but who knew?

[packs]

I would like my SGC 40 Cobb Bat Off back. I sold it for 3 times what I paid but if I'd waited a little longer I'd have been making 5 or 6.

[riggs336]

I sold a 1949 Leaf Spahn for $12 in 1977. The a-hole buyer's check bounced and I haven't sold a card since.

[pokerplyr80]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

51 mantle vg-ex for less than 8K maybe 1 1/2 yrs ago
bunches of goudey ruths
e121 ruths
bunches of t206 cobbs
t206 rare backs

I think the answer is everything that I ever sold I sold too early!!!

Yea same here. I'd gladly take any card back I've sold at what I sold it for. Much more in many cases. But I'm sure the same is true for everyone these days

[pootshwan]

Originally Posted by CobbSpikedMe

I also sold my Trout rookies way too early. I sold all my Trouts years ago for around $150 total. It was a fair price at the time, but I wish I had held them. Why didn't I just keep one of the Topps Updates!!

My Goodness!

[pootshwan]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Whenever i think of a few cards I've sold I throw up a little in my mouth. Best plan is to just not think about it at all...

Yes, I try not to. It is difficult when you see the card at auction on ebay.

[jchcollins]

I try not to think about it. My list of regrets is relatively short for a collecting career that is now standing at 35 years, but here goes:

*Forget how I acquired it, but sold a '52 Topps #312 Jackie, probably G-VG (perfect, and I mean perfectly centered...) but with a light vertical crease down the middle - almost the length of the card - did not break the surface - one of those "twist in the light to see" issues - for $500 or so probably along about 2002.

*E92 Dockman Cy Young. I bought at a show also in the early 2000's for maybe $500 raw. I did not know much about E cards at the time, and this proved to be my downfall. I somehow convinced myself the card was trimmed, and sold it on eBay. I made my money back or took a small loss. About 6 months later I saw the same card, and I know it was mine by identifying marks - in a PSA 5 slab where it then sold for about 4x what I had in it at the time. Who knows what that would go for today...

*A nice and centered PSA 5 '53 Topps Satchel Paige that I paid $420 I think for in 2017. I sold it about a year and a half later for a modest profit. Poof...well, that's worth a ton more now.

Anymore I keep coming back to the same lesson learned: Just don't sell cards. Do you really have to? Be bored for awhile. It's sometimes better than selling something to finance whatever it is you have to have in the moment...only to to realize you F'd up later.

[drcy]

You can't predict future prices-- and of course they drop too. The only regrets are bad sales for the time. But, then, they're stories.

[Tyruscobb]

I have several cards that I regret selling too early. However, my biggest regrets are not the cards that I sold too early, but the cards I didn’t buy early. Unless the market significantly tanks, it’s now likely that I’ll never own them.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Tyruscobb

I have several cards that I regret selling too early. However, my biggest regrets are not the cards that I sold too early, but the cards I didn’t buy early. Unless the market significantly tanks, it’s now likely that I’ll never own them.

Ditto. I also regret buying a good chunk of my collection rather than devoting the money to other cards. It isn't a stretch to think that had I bought ten cards 30 years ago (and they were ones i could have afforded) I could retire on them today.