How do you mentally adjust on pricing?

[Gorditadogg]

Well, my suggestion is to collect something new. A few months ago I started on a mid-grade 52T set. I have no issue with paying current prices because I don't have the memories of how those cards used to be priced. So in that sense ignorance is bliss.

For me that is more productive than pouting over the holes in my 69T set and debating whether to pay 10x more for the Nolan Ryan than I could have got it for 5 years ago.

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[kailes2872]

Originally Posted by Gorditadogg

Well, my suggestion is to collect something new. A few months ago I started on a mid-grade 52T set. I have no issue with paying current prices because I don't have the memories of how those cards used to be priced. So in that sense ignorance is bliss.

For me that is more productive than pouting over the holes in my 69T set and debating whether to pay 10x more for the Nolan Ryan than I could have got it for 5 years ago.

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The two cards that I have bought this year are a 35 Goudey 4-1 Foxx and a 34-36 Diamond Star Foxx. I have no idea what they cost in 2015 and, while I am sure that I paid much more than then, ignorance is indeed bliss.

The visual of the 69 Ryan was spot on.

[JustinD]

I don’t.

I have moved my collecting habits to other aspects of the hobby I consider undervalued or more inline with a believable value. For those things I see as ridiculous I have paused my collecting until the investment more so meets my perceived value. I have learned in the past 40 years of collecting that it always seems to cyclically come back around to my wheelhouse of perception in time.

[Exhibitman]

I suppose the key is to have fun. if I cannot enjoy collecting I will stop. In the meantime I just sit and wait patiently.

[nwfsteve]

I'm down to maybe 100 cards to complete various sets. But I can't go for most of them at current levels. I have been collecting since 1965. So for now, I'm building small sets of my favorites, who aren't always big ticket - Jim Bouton, Bobby Murcer, cards that I can put in sheets and look at. I may sell my 55 All American set because I don't get a kick out of it in the same way.

[conor912]

The pain from cards I didn’t just pay the asking price for far outweighs the pain from overpaying.

[jimjim]

Originally Posted by conor912

The pain from cards I didn’t just pay the asking price for far outweighs the pain from overpaying.

That’s just human nature. People think/talk about the ‘one that got away’ way more than when they got something in all facets of life. I can go down a list of sports items I didn’t pull the trigger on over the past 5-10 Years much easier than I can on when I bought something. Wish it was the other way around!