A mistake, again!

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Posted By: identify7

It seems that I continue to make them, but so far none have really been killers. I buy too high, I sell too low, I get the short end of trades, I buy what I don't need and I don't buy what I do want.

I dunno.

Buying too high isn't too bad, because I definately get what I want.

Selling too low is also not too bad, because I do get rid of what I don't want.

The same with getting the short end of a trade, because the bottom line is that you exchanged things of sort of no value for things which you wanted.

Buying what you don't need is a problem for me, because although I do enjoy my impulse purchases, they do not fit my collecting goals. So they sit with my other miscellaneous cards which really are trade bait or for sale. Why do this?

And worse is not buying what I want. It happened again this month. I thought the card cost too much, so I turned it down - then buy the time I realized that although it was higher than I had budgeted for the card, it was singularly gloriously right, right, right! But when I went back for it, I found it was gone, gone, gone!

This is the mistake I hate most. I do it over and over. Sometimes the card isn't good enuff (but it is); other times it is too good (but it ain't).

What type of mistakes do you hate most?

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Posted By: barrysloate

Every vintage card I've ever sold in my nearly 25 years in the hobby has tripled, quadrupled, and then some, so I guess I regret every sale I ever made. Of course I say this tongue in cheek, but since my business is selling cards I never put any of them away. I guess I should have. As Bob Dylan said, "Don't Look Back." (did he actually say that?)

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

Did he actually mean it?

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Posted By: barrysloate

I don't know if he meant it, but Monday and Tuesday night Martin Scorcese's "No Direction Home" will be on PBS and I will be doing four hours of looking back. Must see TV.

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Posted By: DJ

Saw the Bob Dylan documentary last week. Nothing like Joan Baez doing her best impersonation of the "man" and was very surprised that he sat down to talk to Scorcese. I thought it was more of a look at the History of Folk Music through Dylan's many influences. Still recommend it if you are a Dylan fan. I also highly recommend "Bob Dylan: World Tour 1966: The Home Movies". It was shot by his former drummer Mickey Jones. Met Mickey a few years ago and we chatted about his days with Dylan.

Oh, my mistake always surrounds a purchase, say a PSA5 caliber card and that same card comes up for auction like a month later and I would prefer that one for some reason. Cleaner card. Better clarity. Better centering.

DJ

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Posted By: barrysloate

He let Ed Bradley interview him on 60 Minutes. I think he's softening in his middle age.

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Posted By: DJ

I saw the interview. Notice how he did the interview the same week his book came out? Not exactly a person who treasures friendships. I asked his drummer if Bob was the type of person you could stop by and have a cold one with you were in town. Mickey drummed for him for like a dozen years and said he wouldn't be welcome. I saw him three times in concert this year and even left one of the concerts a song early to meet him. He walked right by. I wasn't even there.

DJ

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Posted By: barry arnold

believe it or not, i gave a talk to a room full of physicians
on Saturday on Medical Ethics and quoted from Dylan's Positively
Fourth Street!
They loved that much more than any of my Aristotle or Kant stuff!

a big Dylan fan,

Barry Arnold

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Posted By: tobacco-r-us

What was your question again? --

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Posted By: RC Mckenzie

'Don't think twice it's alright'
I'm glad this is not my only hobby otherwise I couldn't afford this one.

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Posted By: barrysloate

Just finished reading his biography "Behind the Shades- Revisited." Transcendent artist, but doesn't sound like a guy you would feel comfortable hanging out with. Only saw him once, at Concert for Bangladesh in 1971. He walked on the stage unannounced so it was pretty exciting.

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Posted By: identify7

I guess for this thread, my question was off topic, sorry.

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Posted By: jay behrens

Don't you hate it when you start a thread only to find out that you are the one off topic? Can't really chime in on either topic as I hate Dylan and haven't given Gil's orignal question much thought. New if we were talking old school punk like the Velvet Underground or New York Dolls, then I might chime in.

Jay



My place is full of valuable, worthless junk.

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Posted By: identify7

I think that it is hilarious!

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

Barry Sloate

Paige....before Dylan...is quoted as saying...."Don't look back,
someone might be gaining on you".

Anyhow, as you know Barry, I am a "hoarder" and a procratinator
and this has paid off over the long run. Because, I did hold my
collection for a longer period than most; and, then started to
sell it.

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Posted By: barrysloate

Ted- I know Paige said that too, but that's also the title of the 1967 Dylan documentary. And as far as going off topic- I was the first to answer Gil's question, so didn't feel bad about straying after that.