Vintage card regrets

brianp-beme · #1 12-22-2018, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Steve D

On the buying side, my big regret is coming in second on a T206 Eddie Plank about 12 or so years ago. I bid $16,100, and it went for $16,200 on ebay.

Steve

Just tell yourself that the person who won the card had a top bid of $25,000, so you never had a chance anyway.

Brian (self-delusional since the Eighties)

riggs336 · #2 12-22-2018, 06:06 PM

In the late 70's I sold off most of my duplicate stars via The Trader Speaks. I still remember some of the prices: 1958 Aaron $3.00; 1954 T Williams #1 $4.50; 1948 Leaf Spahn $4.50 (the check bounced on that one).
I didn't regret selling them at the time and regretting it now would have to go really low on my list of Most Wanted Life Mulligans.

Steve D · #3 12-22-2018, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by brianp-beme

Just tell yourself that the person who won the card had a top bid of $25,000, so you never had a chance anyway.

Brian (self-delusional since the Eighties)

Oh, believe me, that's what I've been telling myself ever since the auction ended.

It helps some, but not completely.

I am very glad though, that the winning bid was a full normal increment, and not some odd small amount where it was obviously the winner's high bid.

Steve

Bram99 · #4 12-22-2018, 09:38 PM

My biggest regret is not about selling but about having spent any money that I did on the cards of the mid 80�s to the 1990�s. Also, the opportunity cost of spending that money on other than vintage cards.

JLange · #5 12-23-2018, 12:57 PM

I�ve sold items over the years for various reasons and have come to regret a few sales that were purchased as indivudal cards years earlier. The dollar figures weren�t high, and the reasons for parting with them made good sense, but as my collection has evolved I eventually found a hole or two where I used to have the card. Of course I�ve not seen them since on eBay or elsewhere which only adds to the frustration. It doesn�t matter why you parted with it, if you need it now and it�s costly or difficult to find, it hurts a little bit.

62corvette · #6 12-23-2018, 03:51 PM

In 1974 I passed on a T206 Wagner for $600. It was fair condition. I had put myself through 9 years of college, we had a baby, and my monthly pastor’s salary was $550. My wife encouraged me to borrow the money. She is very kind—only occasionally does she say “I told you so.”
I also wish I had not sold 140 1966 Topps rack packs in 1973 for $1.50 each postpaid. And then there were the duplicate 58-62 complete sets I sold around that same time for $35 each. (I doubled my money)

hcv123 · #7 12-23-2018, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by 62corvette

In 1974 I passed on a T206 Wagner for $600. It was fair condition. I had put myself through 9 years of college, we had a baby, and my monthly pastor�s salary was $550. My wife encouraged me to borrow the money. She is very kind�only occasionally does she say �I told you so.�
I also wish I had not sold 140 1966 Topps rack packs in 1973 for $1.50 each postpaid. And then there were the duplicate 58-62 complete sets I sold around that same time for $35 each. (I doubled my money)

Forget my post!!

ValKehl · #8 12-23-2018, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by 62corvette

In 1974 I passed on a T206 Wagner for $600. It was fair condition. I had put myself through 9 years of college, we had a baby, and my monthly pastor�s salary was $550. My wife encouraged me to borrow the money. She is very kind�only occasionally does she say �I told you so.�
I also wish I had not sold 140 1966 Topps rack packs in 1973 for $1.50 each postpaid. And then there were the duplicate 58-62 complete sets I sold around that same time for $35 each. (I doubled my money)

Wow, Mike! Just WOW! All of a sudden, my regrets are too trivial to mention.

gabrinus · #9 12-24-2018, 02:16 AM

"Regrets....I've had a few".......Jerry

Joshwesley · #10 12-25-2018, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by 62corvette

In 1974 I passed on a T206 Wagner for $600. It was fair condition. I had put myself through 9 years of college, we had a baby, and my monthly pastor�s salary was $550. My wife encouraged me to borrow the money. She is very kind�only occasionally does she say �I told you so.�
I also wish I had not sold 140 1966 Topps rack packs in 1973 for $1.50 each postpaid. And then there were the duplicate 58-62 complete sets I sold around that same time for $35 each. (I doubled my money)

As a preachers kid, I feel your pain....I�m sure you made the right decision at the time.

That�s a tough one to look back on though lol

ls7plus · #11 12-25-2018, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Bram99

My biggest regret is not about selling but about having spent any money that I did on the cards of the mid 80�s to the 1990�s. Also, the opportunity cost of spending that money on other than vintage cards.

Amen to that, Tony. In my case, primarily on new cards from when I started about 1989 until around 1993, when I began to study what had occurred in the coin hobby (which had been around in organized form for about 120 years longer than ours) and began to learn more about vintage cards.

Happy holidays.

Larry

MarcosCards · #12 12-26-2018, 04:59 PM

I haven�t done much buying or selling. I�m just a 66 year old guy who�s thankful to have his childhood baseball card collection from the early 1960s. But if I was going to part with any of my cards, I would first take high quality scans of them.

I realize this approach wouldn�t be sufficient for many collectors. But for me, having a digital image to look at from time to time would ease any possible regret I might have.

Piratedogcardshows · #13 12-26-2018, 05:26 PM

Very much so. I sold/traded a few T210/T209 early in my prewar collecting that I just didnt know where so hard to come by. Live and learn.

jchcollins · #14 12-26-2018, 07:49 PM

I don't have any true regrets, as all of the cards I'll mention below that passed through my hands at one time or another I couldn't really afford anyway - so it's all kind of a wash. But in the days from about the time I graduated college (22) through the early years of my marriage (maybe 26?) I was kind of a pseudo-dealer. I'd buy nice stuff I liked, then when it came time to pay the bills, I'd sell something to finance them. I probably could have been a halfway decent dealer if I had put my mind to it, but the money was always an afterthought - I've always been a collector at heart. Anyhow, if I could have a few back - these would be some of them. They were all in pretty nice shape, save for the Bazooka Mantle:

E92 Dockman Cy Young
1941 Play Ball Ted Williams
1948 Leaf Ted Williams
1952 Topps Jackie Robinson #312
1953 Bowman Mantle
1954 Topps Aaron RC
1954 Johnston's Cookies Aaron RC
1954 Red Heart Mantle
1954 Red Heart Musial
1955 Topps Clemente RC
1959 Bazooka box Mantle
1959 Topps Mantle PSA 7 NM
1965 Topps Mantle
1968 Topps Ryan RC
1973 Topps Schmidt RC

I'm sure I'm missing a few. I have a nice mid-grade collection of post-war now, but a few of those obviously I would have a hard time replacing at what I paid for them probably - mostly in the early 2000's.

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