What's Your Biggest Hobby Related Regret?

[mattr27]

What’s everyone’s biggest regret in the hobby? Either cards you spent too much on or maybe something you missed out on that ended up becoming unaffordable? Or maybe selling cards before they exploded in value?

With hockey card prices going crazy in the past year or so, I definitely passed on some cards early on that I regret not jumping on. But one regret that sticks out to me is losing out last second on a BGS 9.5 Elias Pettersson FWA on an ebay auction that closed at like 450 dollars and I was so mad about it that I spent an extra 300 dollars on another that same day even though if I was just a little bit patient, I could have gotten one at the original comparable price.

[volkov956]

Finding a store through a catalog in the 90's selling 1979-80 OPC Unopened packs for 20$ each.... and I never bothered doing it they only accepted money order and I had dealt with them multiple times.

[GKG51]

I had a chance for a gem PSA 10 McDavid right before the pandemic for $450, thought hard and didn't pull the trigger.

[Zacy87]

Not hockey related but sold a 2018 Prizm Luka Doncic Significant Signatures Mojo RC Auto /25 for about $1600 a week after I pulled it.

This was the week after release and Luka hadn't exploded yet.

[Agent99]

None. Live and learn.

[smanzari]

I sold a total of 88 2011 Mike Trout Topps Update Rookies for in between $4.25 and 6.99 on COMC (winter of 2011/2012)

[nyisle]

when my brother and i were just started collecting, we were in the LCS that we always went to. There were 2 Gretzky RCs in the case, OPC and Topps for $30. My brother bought the Topps because he thought the condition was better... I should have bought the other. A few years later I bought the Topps off of him for $300, still have it.

[mallowciraptor]

I'll try and keep mine hockey related, but definitely taking a sabbatical for a couple years (2014-16). That coincided with me not buying any product McDavid's rookie year and missing out.

Life circumstances kind of necessitated it but looking back I should have still tried to make time for the hobby.

[creasecollector]

Passing up a Bobby Orr rookie card for free...

[Melagoo]

to this day wondering why my Mom and my Aunt threw out all my cousins and my cards from the late 60's to the mid 70's ... I remember my Aunt talking to my Mom saying she threw out 3 large cartons of cards ... put them out with the garbage one day ... ... hind sight is always 20/20

[Retired hobbist]

Originally Posted by creasecollector

Passing up a Bobby Orr rookie card for free...

Not being greedy and snatching Gretzky rookies at 20 bucks a piece that were mint to the eye, which would have been graded 7 pluses. After they shot up to about 100 in two years I was leery of buying anything as counterfeits were quite common of the card.

After that prices shot to the moon for Gretzky rookies until the crash of the mid 90's and prices flattened out for a nearly 20 years.

[Retired hobbist]

Originally Posted by Melagoo

to this day wondering why my Mom and my Aunt threw out all my cousins and my cards from the late 60's to the mid 70's ... I remember my Aunt talking to my Mom saying she threw out 3 large carton of cards ... put them out with the garbage one day ... ... hind sight is always 20/20

Had this in my mid 70's cards to late 70's cards and lost a Bossy rookie,but strangely enough I never had many key cards of these years.

PS, I threw out "traders" or commons of the Gretzky year, Messier year, Coffey year and the few Bossy years my mother didn't find on my own in the early 90's as they were worthless at the time and a few hall of fame players with lower profiles at the time were scattered in the pile like Kevin Lowe and Larry Murphy. I remember not wanting to find room for the worthless commons and now decent shape commons go for decent money for the Gretzky year.

[rohara99]

1 - Not getting back into cards 2, 3, 4, 5 years ago. I dabbled in ebay searches but never bought a single card. If I had I would have gotten hooked and been deep into a sweet collect.

2 - Not selling more in Jan/Feb.

3 - Not buying more last fall before prices went nuts.

With all that in mind I'm still have a blast, am close to rounding out my PC at a net cost of zero so #YOLO, no real ragrets.

[mattr27]

Originally Posted by smanzari

I sold a total of 88 2011 Mike Trout Topps Update Rookies for in between $4.25 and 6.99 on COMC (winter of 2011/2012)

That is genuinely upsetting!

[Archangel1775]

Passing on a 79/80 OPC box for $10,000 as a long term investment.

[mrb842]

that there aren't more stores+shows w/singles. I loved the national and seeing lots of random cards I'd never thought of. Buying online is not the same. Also a store went out of business several years ago before I was really into stuff and I bought mvp cards instead of series 2. they were $1 a pack and they had cases of them. That was the matthews year I think.

[isles4life]

Joining Blowout Forums

[HansViktor]

Originally Posted by creasecollector

Passing up a Bobby Orr rookie card for free...

What's the story behind this?

[creasecollector]

Originally Posted by HansViktor

What's the story behind this?

When I was a kid, I was going through a family member's cards they were getting rid of/selling and was told to choose a handful of any card I wanted. I passed on at least 1 Orr rookie, maybe 2. I was a kid so I couldn't have known better, so it's a funny story to tell.

I remember finding out a few years later what a Bobby Orr RC had looked like and I remember thinking: "Huh, I've actually held one of those in my hands before. Dang".

[ejs23]

Originally Posted by isles4life

Joining Blowout Forums

LOL


I've been collecting on and off most of my life... yet somehow I've managed to miss just about every meaningful rookie year cards. Was "off" when rookies came out for Crosby, Ovechkin, Malkin, Mcdavid. Going back further and/or across sports I missed Brady, Kobe, Jordan, etc. While I've picked a few up here and there after the fact, I should have jumped in at the right times.

[SilverSurfer77]

Being from Winnipeg the hype for Teemu was pretty big. I bought around 20 UD rc's for I think around $30 each. I had no clue they were so massed produced and figured I was going to make big $$$. Oh well, live and learn and I still have them all.

[HansViktor]

Originally Posted by creasecollector

When I was a kid, I was going through a family member's cards they were getting rid of/selling and was told to choose a handful of any card I wanted. I passed on at least 1 Orr rookie, maybe 2. I was a kid so I couldn't have known better, so it's a funny story to tell.

I remember finding out a few years later what a Bobby Orr RC had looked like and I remember thinking: "Huh, I've actually held one of those in my hands before. Dang".

That's a fascinating story!

At least that became someone else's gain!

[boxbuster7]

Originally Posted by Agent99

None. Live and learn.

This is the right answer. Opportunity cost is overdiscussed.

[BaseballKing]

Not buying a McDavid YG PSA10 2 years ago and a Topps Gretzky RC in any grade(I prefer Topps over OPC because I can't deal with the edges with the OPC cards).

Maybe discovering epack can also be mentioned. It seemed awesome when I first discovered it( and I do still use it) but I now have 900 cards on there and the prospect of bringing them home is a headache to say the least. My first order of 100 cards cost me $35 in postage and took 7 months to arrive. I'll probably end up leaving cards on there which sucks.


McDavid and Gretzky are easily the biggest regrets, though.

[mattr27]

Originally Posted by BaseballKing

Maybe discovering epack can also be mentioned. It seemed awesome when I first discovered it( and I do still use it) but I now have 900 cards on there and the prospect of bringing them home is a headache to say the least. My first order of 100 cards cost me $35 in postage and took 7 months to arrive. I'll probably end up leaving cards on there which sucks.

Have you tried selling on comc? I was able to sell a bunch of cards I didn't want from epack on there.