Cards you sold and wish you hadn't

[HOF Auto Rookies]

I sold about 15-20 2009 Bowman Chrome Mike Trout signed rookies for $750-$1,250 and now they are around $3k-$4k. Not complaining about my profits though

[philliesfan]

I had a 1940 Playball Joe DiMaggio and sold it just as the grading companies were getting started. Sold it raw and it would have graded an easy 7.
Robert

[darwinbulldog]

Had a PSA 5 Ruth #144 and a PSA 1 '52 Topps Mantle. Sold them on eBay back in 2005. Got $4000-$4500 total for those two. And I wish I hadn't traded my Tip-Top Boy card for a heavily creased E94 Cicotte at the height of the D-card market.

[Aaron Seefeldt]

2 ty Cobb backs
T210 Joe Jackson
T214 Cobb
Henry Reccius Wagner
T206 Cobb Red Hindu
Darby chocolate box w Wagner
T206 Uzit Cobb
T216 Mino Wagner throwing
D304 Marten's Cobb
Rose PC Cobb
Wolverine PC Cobb
Big Head Babe Ruth
4 different 1925 Exhibit Gehrigs

and there's plenty more and yet I continue to sell things after holding onto them for a bit. I'm a collector who sells

[njdunkin1]

Originally Posted by Aaron Seefeldt

2 ty Cobb backs
T210 Joe Jackson
T206 Cobb Red Hindu
T206 Uzit Cobb

Holy smoke.

[pokerplyr80]

I should have held on to the red and green t206 Cobbs I had.

[jbl79]

1914 CJ Joe Jackson PSA 3
1939 Play Ball Ted Williams PSA 8
(2) 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle

[T206Collector]

Originally Posted by pokerplyr80

I should have held on to the red and green t206 Cobbs I had.

This. But I have to say there must be a lot of us. And how long should you hold on to something that skyrockets in value? See also Bitcoin!

[rats60]

Originally Posted by Aaron Seefeldt

2 ty Cobb backs
T210 Joe Jackson
T214 Cobb
Henry Reccius Wagner
T206 Cobb Red Hindu
Darby chocolate box w Wagner
T206 Uzit Cobb
T216 Mino Wagner throwing
D304 Marten's Cobb
Rose PC Cobb
Wolverine PC Cobb
Big Head Babe Ruth
4 different 1925 Exhibit Gehrigs

and there's plenty more and yet I continue to sell things after holding onto them for a bit. I'm a collector who sells

Wow! I would like to see what you kept for your collection. It must be amazing.

[RedsFan1941]

not a valuable card, but long ago I had a T206 southern leaguer of Paige with an old mill back. despite its sentimental value, I traded it away. sometimes I sit and wonder whatever happened to that card.

[docpatlv]

Originally Posted by RedsFan1941

not a valuable card, but long ago I had a T206 southern leaguer of Paige with an old mill back. despite its sentimental value, I traded it away. sometimes I sit and wonder whatever happened to that card.

Hi Ronnie,

You traded it to me, I had it graded by PSA. They mislabeled it, so I sold it. Not sure where it’s at now.

[Aaron Seefeldt]

I lost everything through a nasty divorce. Had to start all over in 2009.

[hcv123]

Originally Posted by Aaron Seefeldt

2 ty Cobb backs
T210 Joe Jackson
T214 Cobb
Henry Reccius Wagner
T206 Cobb Red Hindu
Darby chocolate box w Wagner
T206 Uzit Cobb
T216 Mino Wagner throwing
D304 Marten's Cobb
Rose PC Cobb
Wolverine PC Cobb
Big Head Babe Ruth
4 different 1925 Exhibit Gehrigs

and there's plenty more and yet I continue to sell things after holding onto them for a bit. I'm a collector who sells

Onto my regrets:

1968 Topps 3d Clemente - sold raw right around when PSA was getting started - sold for 6K - customer got it graded..........a 9 - 30k card overnight
1966 Topps punchout Mays - 2-3k many years ago - didn't realize how rare it was... sold years later for 23k
1968 Ryan rookie - I owned it since I was a kid - easy 8 - possible 9 - turned down 2k for it when they were selling for 1. Sold it for 1k a year later when no one cared as much. A couple of years later PSA came around...

Then there were the ones I never pulled the trigger on that I wish I had .... like the Clemente rookie 8.5 for 10k. 1958 Kahns Clemente probably a 5 or a 6 -for 1 1/2 times "book" at the time ~$500 I was just getting started - seller said I didn't know what I was looking at - he was right


No one ever learned anything from doing it right

With all of that said - grateful to have the collection I do and be part of the net 54 community!!

[Fastball]

I still can't believe I did it ... I think of her all the time!

[MattyC]

Ryan, just know that it is very loved by the whole family, and gets me through any rough patch Also, it brought smiles to lots of folks at the Slugger Exhibit. It's a card with a warm, happy energy to it; guess that's 'cause it's always meant a lot to those who have taken care of it.

[D. Bergin]

As someone who fancied himself a teenage sports card dealer in the late 1980's there's way too many regrets to not get sad about, especially from an economic perspective. I actually wish I was more of a pack rat and hoarder and not a seller with an instant turn it around mentality, considering even then I preferred the somewhat older oddball material, even if it was considered "junk" at the time, then the new releases.

There was the short stack of Michael Jordan Rookies along with everybody else in that set.

The boxes and boxes of 70' and 71' Topps Football Cellos

The wax case of 84 Topps Football

The giant stack of 73-74 Topps Basketball Rack Packs

A giant stack of uncut sheets from various sports, of the various Topps insert and specialty sets from the early 1970's

...........and tons of other stuff all sold for a song..............or enough to pay my car insurance bill and rent to my parents for the month.

[irv]

Originally Posted by Fastball

I still can't believe I did it ... I think of her all the time!

I don't want to rub salt in the wound, but that is one great looking 52 Mantle!