Almost got 'em

[lebleu]

Got offered a psa 9 1st typhlosion 17 for 300$ 3 months ago… regrets!

[collector91]

@anthonyrowbotham

Nearly bought a 1st ed base box on my mums credit card in 2013 for 10k

She might have been mad and then infinitely thankful after you multiplied her investment 10 fold.

[collector91]

@smpikachuuu

@collector91

A couple years ago, I had the opportunity to buy a psa 10 play promo Umbreon for 10k. I held it in my hands, but had an issue with my account in transferring over the money.

Now I’ve heard that 30k is now a more realistic price.

Also I had a chance to buy 3 wotc 1st Ed boxes for 2500 each the same year…didn’t do it.

Anyone else had one of those “almost got 'em” moments?

Just buy now! And hopefully you won’t have those moments in the future .

Hopefully! It’s just those moments of hesitation and not going with my gut. My gut always said “Dude go for it!” and I didn’t listen. So gotta cut myself some slack.

[dragonwarrior]

almost bought a 1st ed team rocket box last summer for $2k but hesitated and bought other things instead. def made the wrong choice

[r2d287]

I have a few, and I love this thread btw.

The first is a little unique. I was in college and worked at a golf course. Guy in his 80s that I played golf and cards with was going to sell me 3 guns, and a personalized case and hand signed receipts for the guns that were owned and purchased by Audie Murphy. He had been a friend of his. Had agreed to buy them for 5-6k(what he wanted)He ended up pulling out at the last second.

I had contacted auction specialists on this stuff. The answer I kept getting was this is priceless. With the chain of ownership, personalization etc. well in excess of 100k and sky is the limit if marketed right.

Second was buying xrp for .005 or whatever it was. Was going to sink a few thousand into it, but me and my buddy were uncomfortable with the verification process on the exchanges.

3. Not actually keeping all or protecting my original Pokémon collection. Would probably be north of 20k today. I could probably keep going. But hey, at least I have a good career now and can just start over.

[yz2428]

@kpod

Sold over 1000 BTC after they spiked up to $12, then dropped back down to a few bucks. Thought the flash in the pan was done and they’d never be worth anything again. All mined myself by a couple multi-card desktops in my basement. Think that was back in summer 2011.

Oh what could have been…

you are telling me you owned 1000 psa 9 1st edition base charizards then?

[kpod]

@yz2428

@kpod

Sold over 1000 BTC after they spiked up to $12, then dropped back down to a few bucks. Thought the flash in the pan was done and they’d never be worth anything again. All mined myself by a couple multi-card desktops in my basement. Think that was back in summer 2011.

Oh what could have been…

you are telling me you owned 1000 psa 9 1st edition base charizards then?

Like I said, what could have been…

[snap]

I need a drink.

[collector91]

@r2d287

I have a few, and I love this thread btw.

The first is a little unique. I was in college and worked at a golf course. Guy in his 80s that I played golf and cards with was going to sell me 3 guns, and a personalized case and hand signed receipts for the guns that were owned and purchased by Audie Murphy. He had been a friend of his. Had agreed to buy them for 5-6k(what he wanted)He ended up pulling out at the last second.

I had contacted auction specialists on this stuff. The answer I kept getting was this is priceless. With the chain of ownership, personalization etc. well in excess of 100k and sky is the limit if marketed right.

Second was buying xrp for .005 or whatever it was. Was going to sink a few thousand into it, but me and my buddy were uncomfortable with the verification process on the exchanges.

3. Not actually keeping all or protecting my original Pokémon collection. Would probably be north of 20k today. I could probably keep going. But hey, at least I have a good career now and can just start over.

Yeah same. Now that I’m an adult, I’m buying all the stuff that my inner child couldn’t buy in the 90s early 2000s haha.

[acebrown96]

Worst almost gotem, had a couple rookie patrick Roy cards and really nice Pokémon card collection, I traded it all for a bear beanie baby with a rough tag. I was 11, I had the collecting spirit but in hindsight very stupid

[lan23q]

As a child I pulled a First Ed Charizard, I traded it to my friend for about 20 commons.

I stil have most of my collection including those commons

[parkermrparker]

Sold a PSA 9 1st ed blaines zard for $500. 1 month later they were $1200.
Sold a MP 1st ed base zard for $1350. 1 month later they were $4000+
Used to haggle with multiple sellers selling complete sealed masaki promo sets for around $800. I kept declining because i wanted to pay $700. Any one of the 5 is worth that now lol

[xjh7]

Lol…fml…

[kingboo64]

Skyridge booster for $456, psa 6 shadowless zard for $300, expedition booster pack for $200, shining raichu for $40, crystal Ho-oh for $100, then again for $150… not to mention a jungle box for $2800.

[c0ll3ct0r]

• 5 Red Logo Fossil boxes for $600 in 2012. Only reason I considered buying them was because they were dirt cheap.

• 5 Skyridge boxes for $1500 in 2013. I was THIS close to buying them.

• 1 1st ed Neo Genesis box for $8100 in 2019. I declined a counter offer.

Wow, that was fun to type. I, too, need a fucking drink…

[collector91]

The recent surge just brought up more things I wish I had forgotten:

• I could have bought a fossil booster box for 1500 and a jungle for 2500 a couple years ago.
• Decided not to go for doubles of psa 10 gold star umbreon and espeon for 2k each when I could have
• PSA 9 1st edition German Charizard at my local card shop for 700

[collector91]

@lan23q

As a child I pulled a First Ed Charizard, I traded it to my friend for about 20 commons.

I stil have most of my collection including those commons

Oh man. I’m so sorry. RIP

[krill]

Cant think of anything specific that I missed. I won a nm corocoro shining mew for a little over 20 bucks a couple of years ago which was a decent deal even then but it got lost in shipping. But I ended up just buying another for 30 bucks right after lol. Also wish I bought some more sealed vintage but there never was ‘that one that got away’.

[KingPokemon]

Sometimes the deal you miss is the best deal you ever made. Early on I had chance to buy 2 or 3 dozen Japanese sets for a fair price. I decided to pass. Today’s those sets could be worth many thousands. Too bad? No. The very next day I was able to buy a ton of 1st Ed. Base holos that today are worth hundreds of thousands.
Had I not passed on the Japanese cards I would have lost over a quarter million.

[cosrob]

@KingPokemon

Sometimes the deal you miss is the best deal you ever made. Early on I had chance to buy 2 or 3 dozen Japanese sets for a fair price. I decided to pass. Today’s those sets could be worth many thousands. Too bad? No. The very next day I was able to buy a ton of 1st Ed. Base holos that today are worth hundreds of thousands.
Had I not passed on the Japanese cards I would have lost over a quarter million.

Can’t agree with this more.

Last month I was the under bidder on the two 1st ed Gym boxes on HA. The very next day a fella i havent dealt with in 6 months emailed me that he had a green wings and blue wings box for sale.

Bought them both and they’ve increased more than the Gym boxes and the green wings has shadowless pack arts (don’t know if it contains shadowless cards).

Goes to show the deals you miss may be for the better.