Cards You Wish You'd Sold?

gemint

I was organizing my graded cards today and came across my 1972 #51 Harmon Killebrew PSA 9. When the card originally graded out, it was a 1 of 1. Someone listed #2 on ebay and it sold for $400+. So I thought I'd check the population to see how many there were today. The result...30! Makes me think I should have sold it and then bought it back for much less later on.

Anyone have regrets of these types of lost opportunities?

Stump

Gemint

Back in 84 had over 1000 Ron Kittle rookies. At the time they were selling for 3 bucks. I still have most of them. I was saving them for when he became more popular than Mattingly.

Dave

CDC4

I wish I had sold all of my PSA 10 rooikes, 1985 to Present, back in the 1999. I took a nice hit on many of those.

CreeperKat

1985 Topps Mark Gwire rookie (Olympic) cards,

LloydsBaseballCards

Cory Snider....enough said

RayBShotz

I still own around 500 Albert Belle rookies.
I think I am going to wait for that outpouring of love from the sports writers when he becomes eligible for the HOF. :-)
RayB69Topps

Robby

TextText1989 UPPER DECK KEN GRIFFEY JR. HAS GOT TO BE THE #1 CARD REGRET OF ALL TIME - SHOULD HAVE SOLD THEM WHEN HE WAS STILL WITH SEATTLE

zardoz51

Canseco

gemint

We all have modern card horrors. How about vintage though (by "vintage", let's say pre-1980).

interchanges

In the early 90's I had the only PSA 9 1962 Bob Gibson (I got it from Gem Sportscards). I held on to it for about a year, then decided to put it in a Superior auction.

I remember the day the catalogue came, I quickly went to see how it was presented, and guess what?
There were TWO 1962 Bob Gibsons PSA 9 in the same auction! Population of two and they're both in the same auction!
Talk about a sinking feeling!
If I would have sold it in the previous auction I think I would have got twice as much.

boggs301012

I wish I sold my Brien Taylor autographed Topps gold cards. Paid 60.00 each(5). Tossed them I couldnt stand to look at them.


James

Scoop

In the early 90's my son was about 10 years old and a big football fan. I took him with me to a local card show and he ended up buying some 99-cent packs of NFL Wild Card football cards. They had some cards that had number stripes on them (5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 1000). The promotion was, you could send the number card back to the company and they would send you any other combinations you request. ....i.e. if you had a 100 stripe Lawrence Taylor card, you could send it in and get 2 (50's) or 5 (20's) or even 100 regular issues.

Well, his second pack contained a 1000-stripe Steve Young. The book on it was about $75. This was a fortune for a 10-year old. He decided to keep it as Steve Young was only getting better and had a chance to go to Super Bowl that year (49'ers did end up winning). Unfortunately, as you know, Wild Card went out of business as they were not issued a license by the NFL and had to stop printing their cards.

He was heartbroken, but after I took him to his first Giants game he forgot all about it.

brucemo

I don't have any that I wish I'd sold. I do have a bunch that I wish I'd never bought.

bruce

BugOnTheRug

300 - 86D bobby bonilla.......

.....as mint as mint can be.......

.....as worthless as worthless can be....

BOTR

Nuyauwka

When the 90 leaf's came out , I got about 100 Carlos Baerga's, at one point you could sell all you could for $17.00 , I kept them instead so I could use them as packing material now!

KING KELLOGG

All Canseco's...

All Strawberry's.....

All Gooden's........

All Saberhagen's..........

All Hersheiser's........



Need I go on...???......





The garbage can gets bigger and the collection gets smaller




Larry

goodriddance189

all my rick ankiel rookies (ugh). all my other modern cards as well

one card i wish i wouldnt have sold is the 2001 bowman chrome albert pujols psa 10. it was a 1/1 when i bought it for around $600. i sold it shortly afterwards for around $700. today, it is still a 1/1, pujols is the hottest player in the majors right now, and a bgs 9.5 just sold for $5100 . oops.

pc

$4000 fleer mystique 1/1 griffey
$11500 pete rose psa 9 (now 4k)
$15000 1964 mantle psa 9(sold for 10k)
$4200 pristine pro 10 griffey
(cover of scd,still have the issue,turned down
5k)..heheh
$2400 spx finite PRO 9!!!! carter rc wowowowowow
$2200 pro 10 gwynn rookie...yikes
$800 usa 10 griffey good sale shoeless joe!
umm....thats about it.
one day let's do a thread on the best sales
we've made.let's say i'm ahead on these!.
oh and yes,rick ankiel but he has a new ligament
and i think he'll work out in 2 years....i have about 20k
in his crapola.

EOMINT

PC--you should have learned a lesson from the hunt bros. on those 66 roses...u better have a real good plan if u are going to corner a market putz.

EO

marty

I still have a few Dave Winfield RC's left from a few years ago. I will let them go for only half of the old book, $175.