Embarrasing mistakes & regrets....
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There's a lot of threads about great buys and super additions to collections, but this thread is for embarrassing purchases or times we've over paid for cards. I'm assuming we've all made mistakes. Right???
My most embarrassing time was when I tried to collect all the cards of a 2004-2005 Upper Deck Sign of the Times hockey Triple Autograph numbered 1-25, somehow thinking I could get all 25/25. I severely overpaid for a lot of these on ebay. I got to 7 of the 25 which was over 25% of the cards available of this specific card. I'm embarrassed about how much I overpaid for some of these cards. I wish I had that money back to put towards my Al Kaline collection. I know I'll never get back what I put in to this futile effort.
What's the most embarrassing purchase you have made (or misguided dream you have chased)? No specific details required...
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I'm sure we can all list the guys we've gone in on ad nauseum. But there's a difference between buying a 100ct stack of 1988 Donruss Gary Thurman Rated Rookies and some kind of Orange Refractor Bat Splinter Jock Strap Patch 1/0 thing that costs you a serious grip of loot. It's more expensive these days and when the prospect tanks its a total wash. The companies smartly capitalize on collectors' love of new rookies and make so many cards and autos and often change only the color or something and if you go all in on a guy you can get burned badly.
I also think high-end Set Registry building can end in spectacular financial disaster-- when we are talking about sets with relatively thin markets. If a set has a whole slew of guys in the high-end, or deep-pocketed sharks in the deep end I should say, then all good, but in cases where it's a handful of guys, if you spend $1000 on a PSA 9 POP 2 Joe Schmo common, no matter how much you appreciate its rarity, all it may take is one or two guys to bow out of the set for whatever reason or for one more to pop up and then your card takes a huge dive. You have to love those low pop commons enough to then hold them until the set gets hot again. This is the risk one runs when collecting cards whose value is tied solely to their pop (a dynamic created and fueled to wild levels by the genius Registry, which can often be a great thing). In contrast, cards of HOFers have the player depicted contributing to value, alongside pop, which is a huge difference.
I try not to remember. But I think one of the most blockhead? Picking up a recolored border on a 65T Carlton RC at the '92 National in Atlanta.
T222's PSA 1 or better
<< <i>anybody that buys high grade vintage cards with tilts and print snow lines like a couple other board members did recently >>
I'm assuming we've all made mistakes
Apparently No!
To this day my dad will not let me live that one down. If I ever go to a show, he'll say "did they have any scratch-offs?"
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Heres looking at altcollector2000 aka Joey
Bought a whole bunch of Drew Stanton cards. I watched the combine and he looked great throwing the ball. Huge Bust!
Bought a bunch of Deshawn Stevenson cards his rookie year..ooops!
A huge buying mistake that I luckily avoided:
I am a huge 49ers fan and I thought Tim Rattay was going to be the next great 49ers QB. There was a 2000 SPX BGS 10 Pristine on Ebay. I was watching it as the auction was counting down. I was willing to pay $250 for the card but I just threw around $200 as my max, figuring I could just raise it later. Well with 5 seconds left I was outbid and I didn't have enough time to put another bid in. I was mad at the time, but now I feel lucky to have saved $200.
My big selling mistake:
I bought a Derrick Rose autograph from Exquisite in late 2010 for $150. (not the patch auto, but one /35). I was going to Vegas in February 2011, so I sold it for $200. All of his stuff exploded around March/April and that card was selling for $600.
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<< <i>You bring up possibly the finest advice I have seen here. Focus on realistic ability to to have the fun this hobby brings. Else, turns in to a bummer. >>
Watch what? Thats why you crtisize a persons preference on the type of cards he likes.You make no sense.
<< <i>When I was eight years old, my friend Chris convinced me that cards were fun. I should have knocked him out. I could have bought a very nice house and a couple of really nice cars with what I have spent on these stupid cards... >>
if you call them stupid, it will lower their self-esteem and hinder their desire to become socially acceptable.
for the sake of cheeses, please refer to them as investmentally challenged.
I hope they feel better.
<< <i>ya, start collection that high school student that just kicked a 67 yard feild goal, bet that kids going to be a super star, i think its on utube,, j >>
He's from here in Spokane, WA where I live. I went to a game a few weeks earlier of his and came away REALLY impressed with him. He put on a heckuva show - booming one kickoff after another out of the back of the end zone, then a *72* yard punt and then a 62-yard punt that was just unreal. It was only 62 because he kicked from his own 38 - a high arching spiraling beauty. No joke, it was not just NFL quality but REALLY GOOD NFL quality. And then he bombed a 56-yard field goal that was easily good. I couldn't believe it when I looked him up and couldn't find any info on any scholarship offers. Later learned he'd had just one - a *partial* scholarship to Eastern Washington, a 1-AA school. Unbelievable.
Mark Rypien's nephew played in that same game and threw for 577 yards. And he's a sophomore. A really, really, REALLY advanced sophomore.
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