What do you regret passing up?

[HRBAKER]

Wolverine News Cobb PC @ the last Nat. in Chicago. I paused, thought about it, went back 30 minutes later and poof! it was gone.

[Doug]

There was a really nice SGC (20 I think) 1914 CJ Mathewson on eBay several months back, but someone beat me to it before I got the money.

[steve B]

Lots of fairly ordinary stuff for me, but ordinary stuff that would have been good buys in the long run.

A few Goudey Ruths, the dealer I went to would hand them to me and tell me I should buy them. Never did buy one, and they're a lot less affordable now.

A drum back at $250 a few years ago, about VG at about the 5th table I saw at a show, and I didn't want to go home with just one card...

Pretty much anything I saw when I first got into shows etc years ago. T206 hofers for $10 commons for around $2 nearly everything was that cheap.


Steve B

[tbob]

Too many regrets to even list

[brianp-beme]

There have been several missed opportunities, but one that sticks in my mind was at a card show in the mid-80's--a guy was parading around the show with a well-wrinkled but still decent looking Sports King of Babe Ruth. He wanted $25.00.

Brian

[ksabet]

When I was 19 I met super model Niki Taylor at a party in Miami and actually got a bit of flirtation my way, but my nerves kept me from pulling the trigger.

I am happily married with two kids now, but that would have been a great story.

[wolfdogg]

Passed up on a 1910 T210-8 Jackson in around GD-VG (raw) for under $7500......oh well

[Butch7999]

KSabet, we feel your pain...
However, as to the purported subject of missed opportunities with sports cards and memorabilia:
We still remember being witless teenagers (as opposed to the witless adults we are now) visiting the County Fair forty years ago and running across a vending machine full of 1940s and '50s baseball exhibit cards. Coulda emptied the machine for a nickel a card, all pristine. All we were interested in at the time, though, were Topps high numbers from that current season, impossible to find in our town. No interest in those outdated antiques...

If we could only turn back the clock

Our twelve biggest card collecting mistakes

1. N 43 near mint sent (1981) from Tom Collier $6000
2. 1915 Cracker Jack Poster (1984) Rob Lifson $20,000
3. Sol White Colored Baseball (best condition copy) 1979-show $350.00
4. Round Album Advertising Poster (1981) - Herman Kaufmann $18,500
5. Bought and sold 100 T212- 1981 bought $300- sold $1,200 same Philly show
6. Underbidder at Sotheby's for only Baseball Oscar- won by S Verkman
7. Near Mint Large Gypsy Quenn- $1,500 Chicago National- early 1980's
8. Ron Oser's NY Kalamazoo Bat"find" of New Yorkers- should have sold the ranch to buy them all
9. Chance to buy 5 near mint N 162 bb sets- 1984 -Goody Goldfaden- bout one for $200- should have bought all for $1000.00
10. Near Mint-Mint 1933 Goudey set - 1982- Cliff Lambert- $1750.00
11. Complete Set of T 200 Premiums- $10,000 George Lyons 1981
12. Old Judge Advertising sign with Player photos- 1989-Lew Neman-- $8000

We learned that one can never pay too much for ultra rare quality material.
Our new strategy has enabled us to acquire more than 30 additions to
America's Toughest Want List since Memorial Day.

In the words of a famous general- We have only just begun to fight

Bruce Dorskind
America's Toughest Want List
bdorskind@dorskindgroup.com

[kkkkandp]

A few years ago at a Fort Washington show I arrived early on a Saturday morning and found an Old Judge Taylor Shafer card on Roger Neufeldt's table. I hadn't much money with me at the time and decided to walk around to see if there was anything higher on my want list before pulling the trigger. Before I could get back to the table Jay Miller was showing me his new acquisition - MY Taylor Shafer card! To this day John Dreker has never let me live that one down.

[incugator]

When I would go to shows as a kid (late 80s) my dad would put me on a limit of $20 no matter how much I saved. I always liked the vintage, but I would never go to the show and buy 1 card. I'd pick up a few 57 HOF'ers like Al Kaline, Nellie Fox, and Bob Lemon. I wish I would've just spent it on 1 Ted Williams, Hank Aaron or Willie Mays now. I was never a Yanks fan so I never went after Mantle. I wanted to buy a 53 mays, but even back then it was about $50-$100 for one that wasn't in poor condition.

-Ryan

[shimozukawa]

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[calvindog]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

Wolverine News Cobb PC @ the last Nat. in Chicago. I paused, thought about it, went back 30 minutes later and poof! it was gone.

Jeff, I think Joe D stole that one from you. My advice: hunt down some Taddys and shove them in his face.

[HRBAKER]

Originally Posted by calvindog

Jeff, I think Joe D stole that one from you. My advice: hunt down some Taddys and shove them in his face.

Jeff,
You are correct, he nabbed it. Send in the clowns.

[bijoem]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

Jeff,
You are correct, he nabbed it. Send in the clowns.

Jeff..... yep - that was me..... but I don't have it any more.

I hope you grabbed it in the last REA auction.

[HRBAKER]

Originally Posted by bijoem

Jeff..... yep - that was me..... but I don't have it any more.

I hope you grabbed it in the last REA auction.

Joe,

No I didn't but I know where there's another one calling my name.

[joeadcock]

In the mid 1970's at a Flea Market in Miami Florida(across from Tropical Park) with my father. There was a family at table selling T206's. Never had seen a tobacco card up close. Most for $1 and a Ruth 33 Goudey for $5.

My father got me Lajoie throwing for $1, no other T206's. No Ruth either. In retrospect, would have done lawn cuts, or anything for money to buy more of these.

Also when Senior year in High School 1981, beautiful girl named Mara. Didn't have guts to ask her out on a date.

Frank

[iggyman]

Hey Frank,

Small world and we've talked about Miami before, but I'm currently living 15 yards away from where that flea market/ Tropicaire drive-in theater used to be (it's now a Target / Best Buy etc. strip mall). Sure wish it was a flea market now.........you know, I also used to go to that flea market with my dad, but since he was a mechanic, he/we were always looking for tools not T206 tobacco cards.

Lovely Day...