Wish you had it back thread

frankhardy

I know that all of you have owned some cards or memorabilia that you wish you still had. I remember in the late 1980's (before the first basketball Beckett came out), I wanted a Michael Jordan rookie. I was about 13 years old and my uncle took my to a local shop. The owner happen to have 3 complete sets of 1986 Fleer basketball. I traded about $20 worth of baseball cards for the complete set. I remember I had to give up a 1985 Topps McGwire, so it had to be after 1987. Anyway, a few months later, my uncle called me and asked, "Do you still have that set with the Jordan rookie in it?" He said that he knew of someone who wanted one. I had always said that I would NEVER get rid of it because Jordan was my favorite player. I got offered for it about $100 worth of baseball cards for it and like an idiot, I traded it off.

I get sick everytime I think about it. I wish I had that set back!

I also wish I had my 1953 Topps complete set back as well, but I bought it to resell and did well. I didn't sell it due to stupity like I did the 86 Fleer basketball set.

What have you guys gotten rid of that you wished you had back?

envoy98

My 2003/04 Exquisite Dwyane Wade RC auto/2clr patch #/99.

I know it's modern crap but that thing appreciated like nothing I have ever owned and it only did so AFTER I sold it.

Pulled it from a pack, sold it for $550...saw it sell leading up to the finals for $5500.


I only wish I had it back so I could sell it now and buy myself a Nagurski for my football set.

Stingray

I wish I had back all the cards my older brother gave me. I ended up basically giving them to a neighbor kid when I went to college. Must have had 300 1971 Topps BB, don't remember condition, but there might have been some nice once in there.

CDsNuts

I had an EX-MT 1956 Topps Jackie Robinson my grandmother bought for me when I was 15. Some guy I traded cards with ended up stealing it along with a bunch of other stuff. I hope he dies. Coksucker.

bigdcards

My dad gave me a 65 Mantle when I was 12. It was the 80's not the 60's. I've always thought it was the best looking vintage set. I sold it when I liquidated my entire collection after losing a job to an illness a couple of years ago. I'd like that one back.

HeritageAddict

I'm in the same boat as Lee on this one, I had a 53 Ford, 58 Mantle, 61 Mantle, Koufax 56-63, a mantle auto ball, and a few other vintage cards and autos that my grandparents bought for me when I was younger and they all got stolen when I was in college. Even today if I came across the guy that stole them I'd likely end up in jail.

milbroco

Two cards.
#1 - 1940 Playball #! Joe DiMaggio. Sold it for $1,050.00 (paid $75.00 for it) and it would grade a 7 at the worst or an 8 at best.
#2 - 1969 Brooks Robinson. it would definately have graded a 10 if I did not sell it. It had perfect corners and perfect centering.

Live and learn.

Bob

RipublicaninMass

1986 Jordan would have been a 9 or 10 if not a reprint. It was back in 1990's so it was probably real. Sold for $550.


1982 TT Ripken, NICEST deepest blues and oranges I had ever seen. Had to be a 10 (maybe ) Consigned it to a card shop that went out of business.

kcballboy

My virginity.

Oh, wait, CARDS I wish I had bacK?

I had a Brett rookie as a kid. Since I was a kid, it was pretty beat up, and I wound up Baying it when I bought a nice graded copy. I still kinda wish I had it since it was the focal point of my collection as a kid.

digicat

Pff, a SGC 92 1993 SP Derek Jeter that I put up on Ebay last month. I figured I'd sell it, then use the proceeds to buy an already-graded PSA 8 and something else. Wrong. Hammered at about $50. Great looking card too. About a week later, another SGC 92 showed up, and sold for a $75 BIN.

mudflap02

When I was around 13ish, my friendly neighborhood card shop in Denver was all too happy to take 2 1962 Topps Mickey Mantles off my hands (regular and All-Star.) In return, I was thrilled to receive a box of some sort of 1992ish UD hockey. I was hoping to pull one of those cool goalie mask cards but I don't even think they were in the box I got. I don't think the cards were real high grade, but would be nice to have them back.


Edit - this is the box - 93-94 UD Series 1

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-SEALED-WAYNE-GRETZKY-BOOK-BOX-UPPER-DECK-93-94_W0QQitemZ200133945734QQihZ010QQcategoryZ660QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

rube26105

for sure, wel not for sure but a very big screw up on my part- i had about 100 old negro league players autographs and letters that they sent me when i wrote to them when baseball cards mag posted their address in 1986 or so-,one guy was 91 and wrote me a 2 page letter,and that was over 20 years ago, psa autheniticated be worth thousands of dollars today, im sure 90% of them are dead now that i had and i could probably buy my own island,and i got rid of em for next to nithing,makes me sick,they are still in town here, but the guy is a millionaire and dont need $,but i got to get em back somehow!
randy

jimq112

I used to play with cars and threw away some pretty nice cars in the 80s. Worst mistake was a 383 1970 cuda "gran coupe" orange with white seats. Sold it for under $2000 (needed habit money) and the guy is still winning local car shows today, and hasn't really touched it. I see the car all over the place. I probably threw away a few others but I would like that one back. He no sold it on ebay a couple years ago at over $40K.

Cards? signed clemente card was stolen from me a few years ago. Probably my most missed card.

perkdog

I had a very nice 1952 Bowman Large PSA 8 Frank Gifford and PSA 8 Sammy Baugh I wish I never sold. As far as memorabilia I still have an autographed BB of Ted Williams that my father gave to me when I was a kid, he got it at Ted Williams baseball camp in the summer of 1961, well one day when I was like 10 years old wwe ran out of BB's and like an idiot I used it to play, it is scuffed up but I still have it. I wish I NEVER did that.

SDSportsFan

I wish I still had my 1954 Topps Hank Aaron and 1954 Bowman Ted Williams. I sold both of 'em back in 1991 to help buy a car and furnish my new apartment (of all the STUPID reasons to sell your cards )





Steve

HeritageAddict

My grading fees from my last submission.

F1ferrari

I also wish I had a 1982 TT Ripken back. I bought it for $6 in 1985, and in 1989 or 1990 I sold it for $100 to buy my Mom and Dad's Christmas presents. I never regretted selling it since I made such a profit, but I just miss having that card in my Ripken collection.

brion8

Back in '86, when I was 13, I traded a 55 Bowman Mantle for six Sportflic Canseco Rookies. It still hurts to this day.

-Brion

ldferg

i purchased 4 - 48 leaf football cards at an auction for $1 back in the late 80s. one was a lujack. and i traded all 4 of them for an 88 fleer baseball factory set....i am still ticked about this.

bifff257

<< <i>My grading fees from my last submission. >>

Ahmanfan

why did everyone get rid of nice vintage for late 80s baseball?

Houston

1985, Webb Road Flea Market. There was a local dealer there with a Mantle rookie. I believe, and Im sure someone here has the old beckett to back me up, it was booking at 1100.00 I think. He said he would take 1000.00. Now bear in mind, at the time Im 12, but my grandpa had passed away and left all the grandkids 1000.00.

I remember throwing a fit that my parents wouldnt let me buy it, they said it was going to be used for my first car. As a meet me halfway offer, they bought me a very nice '64 Rose. It was sweet, and I think they gave maybe $60 for it (this was at the height of Rose chasing the hit record).

Stupid 4 cyclinder baby blue mustang was the car I got.

Bigstep

Back in the late 80's my boys and I were part of a small card trading club. One of the guys who came to trade was a big Met fan and we gave him a mint 1962 Met Yearbook for some 1962 Topps BB cards which he would bring to the next meeting. Needless to say he was a no show for the rest of the clubs existance. Ran into him a few years later by chance and didn't know what I was talking about.

kylehess10

Mine would have to be my Miguel Tejada game used bat. I got it for a steal of $55 on eBay about a year ago but then I saw two jerseys on eBay that I wanted. I decided to sell it and I re-sold it for $170 ($115 profit!!) and I bought a Brian Jordan game worn jersey and an Eli Marrero game worn jersey. It wasn't actually a bad swap......I photomatched the pinstripes on the Marrero jersey to a picture of him on Opening Day weekend and it was appraised by MEARS autheticator Dave Bushing at $350! Not bad at all but I still miss the Tejada bat. It actually surfaced onto American Memorabilia auctions not too long ago. It sold for $146:


Tejada bat in American Memorabilia

brion8

>>>why did everyone get rid of nice vintage for late 80s baseball?

Cause I was stupid teenager that wanted the latest, greatest thing.

Morgoth

Back in 2001 at the lowest point of the graded market swoon we sold our 1933 Goudey PSA 7's Foxx and Dizzy Dean. We got under 1200 for each. The Foxx was the low number. Also sold a perfectly centered 53 Paige PSA 7 for 350 back in 2002. DOH

TheCARDKid

In 90, 91, 92, I sold a ton of modern star cards (and vintage cards) to finance my entry into Star basketball (seemed like a can't lose proposition).

I had a '33 Goudey Eddie Collins in VG that I sold that I wish I had back. Just a really cool card, it was one of the first pre war cards I ever got.

That, a '59 Topps Ernie Banks Nr Mint and a '78 Topps Molitor rookie I wish I had back. Those had alot of sentimental value.

markj111

My 1955 near set that was NM+. I was six cards from completion. I had all the stars. I sold it for $3500 more than 20 years ago to help buy a house.

BigDaddyBowman

What I wish I had back? hmmmm???
my highschool girlfriend...and the ability to see my feet while standing up!

seriously, I would have to say a group of 1955 baseball cards that I picked up from a friend back in the 7th grade....he wanted a pack of cigarettes, so I got my older brother to buy a pack for him and traded me for them. I held on to them until my Senior year in high school when I was too cool for collecting and sold them to another kid for WAY to cheap! uuggh!!! Of course that kid who traded for the smokes could say the same thing!

RipublicaninMass

<< <i>My 1955 near set that was NM+. I was six cards from completion. I had all the stars. I sold it for $3500 more than 20 years ago to help buy a house. >>



I am sure you could buy it back, completely graded, from the equity in the house

kimo75

In 1984 as high school sophomore I had the intelligence to buy every Topps Clemente except 1955 in at least NM. The best was a Gem Mint 1963 Fleer for $9! I actually traded them about 2 years later for......Eric Davis,Dwight Gooden and other great rookies of the era. Still makes me sick!

ssollars

A near complete set of late 60's & 70's football major stars to bye a semesters worth of books back in school! I was only missing a RC Bradshaw and Peyton. The Staubachs cards were the worst part, they would have graded 8 or better from what I remember of them, the rookie was flawless!

Estil

<< <i>>>>why did everyone get rid of nice vintage for late 80s baseball?

Cause I was stupid teenager that wanted the latest, greatest thing. >>



You mean like the ones that load up on 2007 products now? And then when 2008 rolls around, hardly anyone wants last year's products. It's no different than what happens with brand new cars versus those from last model year.

BobaFett72

about 14 years ago i bought a near complete set of 1957-58 topps basketball (all ex-mt or better) with many dupes... AND a complete set of 1964 topps standups (with 4 Mantles!) they were all ex-mt as well. Spent about 1000.00 on the lot, probably flipped it all for $3000.00 over the next couple of years. But, given how much the cards might go if entombed in plastic coffins! i probabaly could have gotten 10,000!

edited because it was 14 years not 10, jesus time flies!

rexvos

when I was a kid I bought a box of Fleer Premier basketball when it first came out... got 3 Jordan Rookies -- sold them all a few years later... bought the box for $15.00 and sold the Jordans for about $100 a pop.... man I wish I had those back so bad.