Random regrettable memory from 2015? National

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by samosa4u

Question ...

Are you guys upset that you will no longer be able to own these cards in the specific grades that you mentioned ... or ... are you upset that you missed out on an opportunity to make lots of money ?? Is it the cards or the money ??

Well, I'm not, nor have I ever been remotely close to wealthy, so when I think about topics like this it's mostly money related.

So when I remember longingly of the piles of unopened 1986 Fleer Basketball boxes that I walked by at 50 bucks a box at shows back in the 80's, it's not for the sake of nostalgia or the "Love of the Game". It's for that sweet moolah I missed out on.

Of course, knowing my mentality back then, I likely would have just sold them the second they hit $100 a box so I could spend the money of the next shiny (or old) thing that caught my eye, just like I sold the stack of 86F Jordans I had for $20 bucks apiece...and was quite pleased with myself at the time I made that sale. Thought I was definitely selling at the top of the market.

[timber63401]

About 2012 or 2013 I put together a 53 set for about 1600 dollars. Bought a beat to hell Mantle for $300 off Ebay. I bought a SGC 2 Paige at the Nationals that year for $75. About a year later had to sell all my cards for various reasons. Had 53,59,63,65,71,75 Topps complete sets. Plus several other nice 50s and 60s cards. I look at what it would cost now to build it again and I'm not even going to try. My son collects and I help him and buy him stuff and a few bigger cards on Birthday and Christmas. I just live vicariously thru him.

[Exhibitman]

What has really helped me avoid regrets is my innate laziness. PSA has opened a submission center a mile from my office, I literally pass it every day twice a day, and I still have a stack of items sitting on my desk because I am too lazy to take them in. I rarely sold stuff over the last 40 years, I just tucked it away because it was easier, so I have few regrets about items I sold, but lots of regrets over items I did not buy.

You don't miss nothing you never had
But you miss so much you wish you could get, HAH
I guess you can put that together
--James Brown