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Anyone regret not getting a card

for ex I had 3 kobe bryant topps chrome and one refractor rookie card and my house was robbed and they were gone. So over the yrs I kept looking to buy the topps chrome ones and put it off and then forgot it and now regret never getting one has one ever had that with any cards?

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  • mcadamsmcadams Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭

    When I was building my desert shield set back in 2006/2007, I came across a guy who had a Chipper PSA 10 in his PC. After getting to know him and buying a few dozen 9's off him, he eventually offered me the Chipper 10 for $4,000. That was definitely higher than any had sold for previously...but I'd never seen one on Ebay etc. I passed...It's probably a $15,000 card now. Worse yet, I needed it for several of my registry sets and would have loved having it, regardless of value.

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  • BJY83BJY83 Posts: 254 ✭✭✭

    Back in the late 90s, I had a chance to buy a PSA 8 52T Mantle for around $6,000. My parents thought it was nuts and wouldn't let me tap into my college tuition account. FML.

    Brian

  • 72skywalker72skywalker Posts: 1,542 ✭✭✭

    I passes on a 1933 Goudey Lou Gehrig at a show for $1,400. I had the money but decided to wait. That card now is about $3,000.

    Collecting Yankees and vintage Star Wars
  • miwlvrnmiwlvrn Posts: 4,264 ✭✭✭✭✭

    PSA 9 1964 George Best sold for $2,400 a little over a year ago. Thought about it and passed. The card would sell for more than 10 times that amount today.

  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,393 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 8, 2020 5:06AM

    ~$100 52 T Mantles in the 80s...sigh. The shop I used to go to had a few in the case.

  • RoflesRofles Posts: 753 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BJY83 said:
    Back in the late 90s, I had a chance to buy a PSA 8 52T Mantle for around $6,000. My parents thought it was nuts and wouldn't let me tap into my college tuition account. FML.

    Oh man. That’s rough. PWCC has one over 400k at the moment. You have a lot of other cool cards in your collection?

  • RoflesRofles Posts: 753 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @miwlvrn said:
    PSA 9 1964 George Best sold for $2,400 a little over a year ago. Thought about it and passed. The card would sell for more than 10 times that amount today.

    Why is that? What’s the story behind the card? Thx!

  • handymanhandyman Posts: 5,347 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A full mint 1960 Topps baseball series 1 wax box for 3500.00. I offered 3,000.00

  • momo1234momo1234 Posts: 358 ✭✭✭

    86 fleer Jordan bgs 8 for 1200.
    Oh well.

  • 54topps54topps Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭

    About 27 years ago I was 21 and recently married with a mortgage. I barely had 2 pennies to rub together. A guy at a card show offered me his 1911 C55 hockey set in VG/EX to EX/MT for $2700 He even said I can make payments over 6 months. Wifey said NO! UGH!!!!

  • handymanhandyman Posts: 5,347 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Another was a teletrade auction.
    SGC 92 T205 Ty Cobb went for like 4000.00 maybe if I remember correctly. I was the under bidder

  • mintonlyplsmintonlypls Posts: 2,020 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A 1959 Mickey Mantle psa-8 (PWCC-E) for $4250 in the PWCC Vault...a couple weeks later goes to PWCC Auction and sells for $8300+!

    mint_only_pls
  • Mickey71Mickey71 Posts: 4,253 ✭✭✭✭

    A million times

  • Too many times to count. Looking back, one of the all-timers was a signed 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle at my LCS in the early 80's for $800. I was about 12 years old and about $700 short. My dad didn't think I could mow enough lawns over the summer to pay him back. Ugh!

  • NGS428NGS428 Posts: 2,327 ✭✭✭✭✭

    All the time. But the most recent regret helps me forget the previous one. Hand me an Ultra @Horse

  • kobefan1kobefan1 Posts: 494 ✭✭✭

    Wait a 52 topps mickey mantle was really under $1k in the 80's? Wow I always thought that card was always out of price even back then. What drove the price so high was it after mantle dead in 95?

  • MoonmanMoonman Posts: 277 ✭✭✭

    I had a chance to buy a Jordan rookie, raw, for $150 around 1990. I think I actually laughed when I saw the price and told the guy he was nuts. Im Stupid

  • mcadamsmcadams Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭

    @BJY83 said:
    Back in the late 90s, I had a chance to buy a PSA 8 52T Mantle for around $6,000. My parents thought it was nuts and wouldn't let me tap into my college tuition account. FML.

    Jesus Christ. I’m tearing up....

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  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,587 ✭✭✭✭

    I kick myself almost daily for not buying a 1925 Lou Gehrig Exhibit RC when they were affordable. :'(

    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • 2dueces2dueces Posts: 6,459 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sets of 1986-87 Fleer basketball for $15.
    1989 Score Football boxes for $7.
    T206’s, stacks of them for $5-20. The $20 ones were Cobbs and HOFer’s.
    Shall I go on or hide all the sharp objects in the house?

    W.C.Fields
    "I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I regret not buying about 10 Brady Championship tickets 20 years ago...

    the crazy thing is i am a Patriots fan since 1989 and LOVE them. I actually resented Brady at the beginning because i didnt think Bledsoe deserved to loose his starting spot due to injury. boy was I wrong. that resentment didnt last too long after the first SB though.

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

  • milbrocomilbroco Posts: 2,732 ✭✭✭

    Yes. back in the mid 1980's a T3 Cobb in nrmt+ condition for $1,500.00. Makes me sick to think abut it now.

    ebay seller name milbroco
    email bcmiller7@comcast.net
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