Is there an item in your collection that you just hate looking at for some reason?

[Koufax32fan]

1979 rookie Pedro Guerrero - I traded a 1960 Duke Snider for it - rookie cards were all the craze!

1957 Willie Mays that is trimmed (I need to upgrade that one at some point, but what to do with a trimmed card).

[Centauri]

I collected Topps football and baseball from the store in 1986. I was a kid, and no one was interested in football. Well, except this one older kid who took pity on me, and was willing to take the crappy football cards off my hands in trade for a "nice" stack of really old baseball cards. Yes, they were commons, but look how old! One was from 1974!

I traded about 500 86 Topps football for a stack of maybe 15 70's baseball cards, the best player was a 75 Dusty Baker. Condition wise, we are talking maybe half would achieve a grade above "A". There were 3 Jerry Rice rooks in the football cards, along with a ton of other good stuff.

I still have those beat to heck baseball cards. I despise them, but keep them as a reminder.

As a postscript, since the market collapsed, the value of those football cards has dropped from several hundred dollars to maybe $50, so much of the sting is gone. Nevertheless...

[Rollingstone206]

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[wolf441]

I have a case of 1987 Topps baseball that I bought from a card shop in the spring of '87 when I was 16. We all thought that McGwire, Canseco, Cory Snyder, Oddibe McDowell, Will Clark, etc...were going to be worth a mint!

I think it cost a little over $200.00 and I had saved up the money I made working after school at grocery store. I remember sitting in my room and sorting them into sets (I still have about 10 sets sitting in my mom's attic collecting dust).

The store that I bought them from in Hyde Park, MA also sold T206's and I think they were about $5.00 each. I could have had about 40 of them!

There as no thought to backs, etc. I had bought two during another trip to the store and picked up a Tolstoi McGraw and an American Beauty Bresnahan for $10.00.

[PowderedH2O]

About 16-17 years ago, I was going through a divorce and working three jobs to make ends meet while going to college full time. I was collecting Olympics autographs pretty hard and a guy had a signed photo of boxer Jose Torres and I won it for about 15 bucks I guess. This was before paypal, so I sent out a check. The day after I mailed the check my ex hit me up for some child support/alimony issue and I was out $600. For a guy delivering pizza and working at Burger King, $600 was the equivalent of a million dollars. So, needless to say, my little check to the guy for the Jose Torres was no good. I got an email from the guy basically calling me the most worthless piece of crap that ever walked the face of the earth and that he was taking me to court, blah blah blah. Anyway, we agreed that I would send him a money order plus $25 for his inconvenience to make it right. I got the Jose Torres photo shortly thereafter. To this day, I hate that picture. I don't even remember the seller's name at this point, but I remember how crappy he made me feel, and when I got the photo it wasn't fun to own. I still have it, and it is buried somewhere in my stuff.