How often to you buy back a card you sold off?

totallyradd

Last summer I subbed my first Gem Mint 10 card, an 87 Maddux Tiffany. I was pretty excited to flip it to get money for the National, but now I'm thinking that I shoulda just held onto it and wanna get another one back.

Don't really regret selling off any other cards, but I think I slipped up getting rid of this one, especially since it's the first 10 I popped.

Raulsmaster

I've had some things slabbed 10 over the past 20 years that I knew when I sold it that it was gonna be hard to let go. Stuff from 10-15 years ago that's still pop 1

gemint

I never specifically try to buy back a card I sold but on a few occasions where I've bought graded sets, they've contained a few cards I had sold off years earlier. I have replaced cards I've sold. For example, I sold off a 1974 Topps PSA 10 McCarver years ago and then got another one later in my submission and ended up putting that second one in my set.

perkdog

It happens, hell when I was into cards years ago I sold my collection of football cards and about a year later I got back into it and bought all of them back including more.

Buy the card back if you have sellers remorse, no sense in denying yourself!

JustinsShoebox

I've done this one time that I can remember recently. Sold off a 2001 Bowman's Best Ichiro PSA 10 with Probstein for good money and turned around and picked it up for around 60.00 less. I still have the card.

Justin

itzagoner

sold off cards which were consigned. unopened too. bought stuff back when it came up for sale again. same cards, same wax, more $$. except now some of it is worth even more, theoretically, and it still sits in a storage container.

poor lonely investments.

hyperchipper09

Sold most of my original collection between Oct 2000 and Feb 2001. Since 2009, bought back a few things here and there while building a new collection.

UnwoundSage

I accidentally bid on my own card once. Oh wait, that wasn't me.

Stingray

I had a 1954 Topps Kaline in SGC 30 (2) grade and it looked like a 7. It had a crease that was almost impossible to see. Sold it to a board member about two years ago. Should have never sold it in the first place!!

mygotta

buying and selling is half the fun of this hobby. I have a nice collection of unopened stuff and not a day goes by where I vacillate between opening, selling and keeping them as they are. Otherwise I have had some 10's slabbed and was excited. But I have sold them off as well. I did like them when I owned them, but at the time it was what I needed to do. There are more 10's in my future.

edmundfitzgerald

I see no difference between an 8, 9, or 10.

So I always sell my 10's, and am very happy with either 8's, 9's, or raw.

I've heard that real men prefer it raw.

dytch2220

I haven't had to do this so far. I wouldn't put it past me though.

76collector

I see no difference between an 8, 9, or 10.

I'm the same way. Almost any card I submit other than 76's if it comes back a 10, I will sell it and buy back a 9 or an 8. Those honestly fit my collection better anyway, since I can't afford 10's of stars or rookies. Since I'm on a limited budget as well, I will buy cheaper cards throughout the year and build my collection, only to sell them to buy an expensive card I normally wouldn't have the money for. I really don't make any money "flipping" but I end up usually getting back what I had into the cards, and start the process all over again. So, in essence my answer to your question is ALL THE TIME !

slum22

I bought a PSA 9 Lebron James Topps Chrome rookie this summer. Sold it on eBay as BIN for a small profit (because I replaced it with a PSA 10), but then saw it for auction a couple months later. The auction must not have gotten a lit of attention because I bought it back from the guy I sold it to for less than my original purchase price. So that transaction went well for me. Hopefully he has another great season as I will be looking to sell it again as I picked up yet another PSA 10. That's the only time I ever bought back the exact same card I sold.

Steve

JoeBanzai

Once, I stupidly auctioned of a card that was the highest graded one I owned and had to replace it later.