Blunders and Wonders in Collecting

[JustinD]

I haven't made too many huge mistake purchases. My problem is overthinking everything and always missing the bus.

I can just only remember tons of triggers I should have pulled and never did.

I think the big one I wish I did is much like a few have mentioned. In the late 80s I really thought the basketball cards were a passing fad and passed on so many jordan rookies its silly. Instead I was buying modern 80s and 90s baseball which is now about good as kindling.

Luckily I was never monied enough to buy the stuff I wanted to so I didn't really get buried under it. I just wish I had grabbed that 80s fleer basketball.

I could say I wish I bought prewar in the 80s, but at the time I wouldn't have gave it a second thought. It makes me remember once sitting at the local card shop around 84, dreaming at the 1978 trammell and Whittaker rookies and buying Topps commons to finish that years set as the shop owner bragged to his friend about selling t206 cobbs to some old lady for a hundred bucks each and how he made a killing.