RIP: Cards that "Got Away"

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I missed this trophy card that just ended on eBay for $390.

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You just avoided giving them an interest free loan

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When I use to buy and sell on reddit there was a guy I bought from sometimes who always had great cards.

I ended up passing on some of his Rocket Returns ex PSA 10 cards and still don’t have them. I remember Rocket’s Suicune, Zapdos, and Entei. All around $150 each.

On the other hand, I think it was the same guy that I bought an Unlimited Dark Espeon for $25 and it ended up grading a PSA 10.

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Snap Koffing for $600. :melting_face:

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I am confident the Glazer family brought this up at a call with investors to show how strong the Manchester United brand is :upside_down_face:

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Here’s to the Losers, Bless us all!
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Cheers!

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This is actually disturbing.

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My face reading this

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I bought a sealed Trainer Deck B off of EBay back in 2016 for $750. Unfortunately I thought I had paid too much so flipped it for around $900. Regretted it ever since.

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Few years ago passed on a PSA 8.5 tropical tidal wave Finalist for about 1k. I decided to get some other cards and an action figure instead :smiling_face_with_tear:

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Have you been able to pick up a tropical tidal wave Finalist since? :cry:

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I’ve seen the opposite - ‘buy the most expensive cards first’ get thrown out a bit.

What’s the logic to that?

I’m assuming something along the lines of, if it’s the most expensive it’ll appreciate the fastest?

Of course the timing of when you buy it does come into play. Vintage and OOP cards are one thing, but even modern cards, at what point does the downward trajectory reverse? Because people FOMO buying before release or even within release week or month 99.99% of the time will be buying at its highest point.

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PSA 10 1st Ed Neo Genesis Lugia for $1500 and another for $1600.

1998 Trophy Pikachu Silver - 2nd Place for $4000. It was part of a group buy for the whole set. The other two were claimed and I talked myself out of going through with it as I really wanted the 3rd Place instead.

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Pokemon Pal City Promos. I have 4 of the 7 promos, but 3 still elude me and barely come up for sale. I have missed out on getting the whole set on 4 different occasions. 2 times the seller cancelled after I paid the stated amount, 2 times I was too late to buy it and it was sold even before my middleman ever had a chance to contact the seller to buy them.

Seller cancelling on me stung a bit because both the times I was ecstatic that I finally managed to get hold of them and complete the set. :pensive:

Cheers!

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The reasoning for “get the most expensive card first” is

  • It’s the most financial burden on a single transaction, so it’s good to do that while you have the liquidity to do so comfortably, and before the price may potentially rise to a point that you’re priced out completely.
  • There’s generally correlation with “most expensive” and “rarest”, so if you decline to get the expensive card when it’s available, you may be waiting months or years to get a shot at another copy. It doesn’t make sense to put all your money into more readily available cards that you can find at any time first.

This is all less of a concern in the case you’re talking about with modern set cards, as you’ve got a pretty wide window of near-peak availability to work with. You’ll never know exactly how print runs are going to go while they’re still in progress, but just grabbing the cards you want after the first wave of supply has worked through the market isn’t a bad approach if the prices are already reasonable to you.

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Taking the pandemic out of the equation, card prices had a nice slow increase over the years, at least for the big promo cards like that. So waiting to get the expensive cards last always costed more

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Yup.
Over the last 15 years, I’ve routinely said, “I can get that chase card later.”
Over the last 15 years, I’ve realized that was not the case. :sweat_smile:

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I know this pain all too well. The Pal City promos are hands down my most favorite in the hobby. It took me a long time to finally complete the set. You really have to keep your eyes open for these and be quick when they pop up. Otherwise, I (and many others apparently) will snatch them up.

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