Is there a card you traded or sold years ago that still haunts you today?
This question came to mind recently because I traded away several cards from my collection, some of which I had kept for many years, to get a card I’ve always dreamed of owning. I’m really happy with the trade, but I tend to get very attached to my cards, so this was a rare move for me after so many years
Maybe shouldnt have sold that latias 
so early…
But the real oops moments are looking back to what ive given away. Giving away umbreon/espeon tag team cards, delivery charizards, base holos, etc.
All given to random people on reddit because it was fun to do. I dont really regret it, but it is kinda hard to look back at see what things are worth.
Mine has always been selling too early like you said. Sometimes it is cards, but aside from one or 2 gold stars, I don’t view set cards as particularly hard to get back (obviously expensive and price changes can make it not worth it, but not exactly difficult in the way that there isn’t a copy ready to buy assuming I had the money).
Sealed product has been the bane of my collecting for a while because while I really like them, the scarcity and drop in trustworthiness of sellers makes me more and more hesitant. So it’s always sealed stuff that I sold that I regret, because I could have just sold cards instead and had no issue getting them back if I needed to.
Thankfully it’s not always a sad story because I was able to buy back some sealed stuff that I probably shouldn’t have sold in the first place from @zorloth last year! Very appreciative that he let me do so. So the relationships built are worth their weight in gold in some cases.
Selling any of my PSA 10 cards too early (before this boom). I still don’t know /why/ I did this, because they were cards I wanted to have in my collection. I’d be fine with PSA 9 copies, but would’ve still been nice to own a PSA 10 Gold Star.
Sometimes I regret buying only WOTC set cards from 2016-2019. I was primarily set collecting WOTC cards in PSA 8. I sorta wish I had either expanded my collecting tastes sooner or been a PSA 10 collector. Some cards I spent $20 are now worth $75. Not too shabby but I clearly had more time to acquire those cards than I thought.
No ragrets
(I’ve traded away/sold multiple GSs in the last few years)
Hindsight is always 20/20, there are a lot of cards I should have kept and made a lot more money on. However, Pokemon has grown in hitherto unimaginable ways. When I look back at a lot of the “regretful” sales I made, I still feel like I can understand why I made the decision to sell at the time.
For example, I sold a PSA 10 Charizard Gold Star in 2018 for $4.5k. Pretty bad decision looking back, but I had bought the card raw and graded it myself for about $550 in total input value. I graded it in 2017 when PSA 10s were selling for around 2k, but I held it for a year as I felt like prices were going to increase and they did. Of course they kept increasing and I’d be up a lot more now, but 2018 college-age Fourthstar making 4k profit on Pokemon was a huge thing for me.
If I had to pick a biggest regret, it would be selling a lot of my PSA 10 English ex cards around the same time as the Charizard. I didn’t make all that much money from them and it has been a big struggle to build back my English ex series collection over successive booms.
I missed many once in a lifetime cards at cheap prices. Snap Koffing for $600. PSA 10 1st ed base charizard for $700. Full PSA 10 1st ed base set for 9k. I also sold the best stuff for incredibly low prices. PSA 10 Shadowless charizard for $1,500. PSA 9 Illustrator for 54k. You name the card I can take 0’s off the price!
As for selling today it’s tough, I’ve talked to other collectors in this boom how they feel forced to sell due to the skyrocket in value. It feels reckless keeping a card that 100x in price. I know it’s a luxury problem but I just love the cards. I had to sell some recently as the prices were 100 times what I paid. In those cases there is more closure, as it allows me to work less and enjoy life more, but I still miss them.
I had a chance to buy a Snap Poliwag around the same time I got my Snap Chansey six years ago. It was only $8k but I couldn’t afford both cards. I wish I had sold stuff or went into credit card debt lol
This isn’t exactly what you asked, but there was a PSA 10 Venusaur CD promo at a local shop with the most beautiful, un-muted holo “bleed” I’ve ever seen on the card. I regret not buying it every time I see the CD promos
Like this
I dont know if it’s the same eBay listing, but i remember that card on eBay for that same price. it is also one of my biggest regrets of what i could have bought. At least you still got a snap, i didn’t get any lol
I regret putting my childhood collection in our family storage unit when we were evicted as a kid. Wish I would have known that my mom wouldn’t pay the bill and I would lose all the cards I cherished.
Sold a PSA 10 Charizard X Poncho Pikachu back in 2020 for 500 bucks.
I paid 50 bucks for it raw and graded it myself but still. I hate I sold it.
I really appreciate it! It was a rocky time of my life but I was a freshman in high school so Pokemon wasn’t a huge priority anymore. Only card I have from my childhood is my brothers 1st edition “d” Butterfree.
Not spending every spendable penny from birth till boom on chinpokomon.
Snap Koffing for $600
I actually spit out my coffee at this. You owe me a new keyboard.
My cousin irreparably bending and creasing my teamrockets mewtwo. One of the few holo cards i managed to pull as a kid.
Even back in 2019-2021, I had troubles finding an English PSA 10 Kyogre from Double Crisis and both top and bottom pieces of the Lugia legend. It was either not sold or when it was sold I didn’t have the spare money.
Selling my entire collection of PSA 9 English Gold Stars in 2024 was not the best move 
My biggest regret is not buying doubles of all the cards I love while they were cheap. I never bought cards with the intent to sell them, but now that a lot of them have ballooned in price it feels so hard to hang onto them 
