This morning I was digging out extras that I hadn’t looked at in awhile and I found a bunch of cards in toploaders that I had forgotten about. They were duplicates of EX cards from when 6-12 months ago when I was actively hunting down deals on Y!J. I forgot I had even purchased these and some were really spur-of-the-moment acquisitions. Now I am sitting on almost 30 extra cards that I don’t know whether I should grade or what. @smpratte I might hit up your forum grading service in the future.
I have completely forgotten about eBay purchases before. I’ll buy something relatively cheap with an Economy Shipping from Overseas and then it shows up a month - 6 weeks later and I react like ‘Oh…yeah…that thing’
I’ve forgotten of a few purchases I’ve recently made.
Usually I order things at school and get the more rare stuff shipped to my home address.
It’s always nice going… WHAT
Have I ever! In fact, it happens every time I go digging looking for something else.
Just a week ago I found 3 M Charizards. One was a miscut I bought from somebody here and two were nicer 107 and 108 copies. I still don’t know where I got those two from? You would think I’d remember those better cause I don’t like TPC cards at all so these stand out like a sore thumb in my collection, but no, can’t recall at all.
I think my age has something to do with it lol.
Lol yes!! Usually when I’m grading items!! They spend to far away that sometimes they will randomly turn up. I.e grading video games… I will forget what I have sent. Then they arrive. Like… Oh… I did buy another one…cool!
I’m fairly patient with shipping as I’m a slow shipper myself. So, naturally I’ll let things go for an extra few weeks before getting worried. Paypal’s policy for opening a case (180 days) doesn’t help with the lack of impatience. I had one international purchase that flat out didn’t ship or intend to ship. I didn’t open a case for 2 months. Paypal took care of everything & the seller didn’t even respond to the case. For those 2 months, I just assumed the cards to arrive at some point. This was back in 2012/13 timeframe.
This example keeps the accounting in order. Now, routine purchase history audits occur regularly. The only thing killing me right now is an Amazon order of Flavor-Ice pops I bought back in April that don’t deliver until mid-May for whatever reason. $7.99 shipped for a box of the jumbo pops.
It does get very difficult for me to keep track of singles I’ve ordered from multiple sources especially when not everything is from eBay. I do worry sometimes that I may have made purchases that I’d completely forget about and then not realize to pursue it if I never end up receiving it. Mix that in with the inevitable problem transactions and returns that you end up having to make and it winds up almost feeling like a second job keeping track of it all.
It’s definitely a first world problem but sometimes I can’t help but wish there was one go-to source that I could just go to for all my wants. Imagine if you could just pay a subscription fee to have the cards you wanted from each new set sent to you as soon as it’s released… how great would that be?
Of course, there is the opinion that the hunt is half the fun of this hobby.
Ive ordered a few figures and cards from across the mighty blue, and not remembered them until they arrived. This thread actually reminded me of a super saiyan blue vegeta figure i have coming.
Not a Pokemon related thing I forgot, but I had forgotten I already pre-ordered Uncharted 4 and then I pre-ordered it again from another place for slightly cheaper price. I only realized that when the bill was sent to my email from the first place I pre-ordered on and I was wondering what did I buy from there and then I realized thankfully my friend is going to buy that game as well so she will buy the other copy from me so I don’t need to send anything back. I felt so stupid when I realized that
thankfully my friend is going to buy that game as well so she will buy the other copy from me so I don’t need to send anything back. I felt so stupid when I realized that