Did I sell too early? You be the judge...

[pootshwan]

Stumbled across an ebay listing of a Mike Trout 2009 Bowman Sterling Auto and it brought back some bad memories...


What was a sale you look back on and makes you hate yourself? haha

 

[DeliciousBacon]

At one point, I owned at least one copy of the Cognac, the Diamond Platinum, the Walmart Blue, and Target Red 2011 Update Trout. Not to mention however many base Trouts. I bought a metric **** ton on Update on release, a further **** ton when those famous Mega Boxes went on clearance, and yet another **** ton when you could find clearance blasters of Update for $10 at Walmart and Target. I doubt I sold them all for more than $100 combined.

 

[gt2590]

Sold mine for $16.

Got more for a Brand Hand auto from the same pack!

LOL or Ugh...

 

[deaconblues63]

Stumbled across an ebay listing of a Mike Trout 2009 Bowman Sterling Auto and it brought back some bad memories...


What was a sale you look back on and makes you hate yourself? haha

I sold mine for $5,400 last fall and you could make the case that I sold too early as well. I hope that there has been many, many other times that you have sold cards for good money that are now worthless and that it all averages out.

 

[smapdi]

I guess I'm lucky I've never had one that bad, unless you count the time I sold a Ryan rookie in 1985 for $30, which was good money for a 15-yo at the time, even though I probably got rooked hard by the dealer. I rarely have the problem of selling too soon, I'm usually way too late, and way too often I am still the end-user of said card. Even now, in the middle of the biggest bull market in the hobby's history, I just cannot sit my butt down and start scanning and listing. A couple years from now I will look back and want to kick myself so hard I'd still be feeling it there 2 years in the future.

 

[Randy Shields]

Mine is still a 10-box Unopened Hobby case of 2009 Bowman Draft Picks and Prospects that I sold in 2012 at the National in Baltimore, which was right before I walked away from the hobby for 6 years.

The most recent box on eBay sold for $7,900. Sellers are asking over $10,000 per box.

So I don't hate myself for the sale because when I sold the case for $2,000 it was a good price at the time.
But who knew things were going to go absolutely ballistic after that.

That one will probably always sting a little bit because I have no doubt it would easily go for 6 figures now! Ughh..

 

[pootshwan]

At one point, I owned at least one copy of the Cognac, the Diamond Platinum, the Walmart Blue, and Target Red 2011 Update Trout. Not to mention however many base Trouts. I bought a metric **** ton on Update on release, a further **** ton when those famous Mega Boxes went on clearance, and yet another **** ton when you could find clearance blasters of Update for $10 at Walmart and Target. I doubt I sold them all for more than $100 combined.

Wow! It's amazing what prices were back then.

 

[sjm76]

Since it seems like hardly anyone posts on the football board here, I'll post mine here which I don't think anyone will top.

I had 2- ungraded 2000 Playoff Contenders Tom Brady autographed rookie cards back in 2006 that I thought had a good chance to grade a PSA 10. Unfortunately I never sent them in for grading and found myself in a bind needing money quickly while in college so I was forced to sell both for $700 apiece. I saw a PSA 10 Contenders Brady RC sell for $125,000 not too long ago. Ouch.

 

[DeliciousBacon]

Speaking of Brady, I overheard this story at a shop a few years ago. The owner knew a guy who was looking to buy bulk Bowman Chrome football rookies, and he had an agreement to buy 100 of one particular card (I don't remember who), but the seller made him buy a 100-count lot of another "worthless" RC in order to get the lot he wanted. The "worthless" RC was, of course, Tom Brady, and the guy who bought that lot made a cool $100 by selling them all at a show for $1 each (more than they were actually worth, apparently, but dealers bought them to put in their Patriots boxes).

 

[pootshwan]

Since it seems like hardly anyone posts on the football board here, I'll post mine here which I don't think anyone will top.

I had 2- ungraded 2000 Playoff Contenders Tom Brady autographed rookie cards back in 2006 that I thought had a good chance to grade a PSA 10. Unfortunately I never sent them in for grading and found myself in a bind needing money quickly while in college so I was forced to sell both for $700 apiece. I saw a PSA 10 Contenders Brady RC sell for $125,000 not too long ago. Ouch.

Ouch is right. College makes us do some knee jerk stuff. I can attest to that lol

 

[Topnotchsy]

The card market today is hotter than it has ever been. There’s been a huge influx of investment money following on the tails of people doubling down on hobbies during covid since they could not go to events, eat out, travel etc. Right now it all looks bad.

Maybe the high prices last, but there’s a chance they don’t.

I’d rather be the guy who sold for $1000 and later saw it hit $10,000 than the guy who sold at $10,000 and later saw it hit $1,000.

That said, I sold a large stash of rookie autos of Pujols, Miggy Cabrera etc that are prob all worth 3x-5x what I sold for. Painful thing is that I had been buying those for a long time (years) thinking they were undervalued, but finally gave up on them as moved on.


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[farmboy8940]

I rarely sell anything but I did sell most of my Mahomes RC’s because I couldn’t fathom what his cards were bringing when he hadn’t played. Worst was an NT RPA 3 color /99 which now sells raw for 50K+. I sold mine for 2900. Ugh


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[JoshHamilton]

I passed buying the 2011 Finest Trout Super auto for $11.5k several years ago. Probably a $250,000 card now

Sold a Gretzky OPC for $2100 that was later crossed to a PSA 9. $100k card now

Sold 09 Trout Blue ref auto for $4k. $75k+ now


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[JVHaste]

I passed buying the 2011 Finest Trout Super auto for $11.5k several years ago. Probably a $250,000 card now



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Ow that sucks. What was your cutoff point when bidding on it?

 

[hive17]

I think we all have similar Trout stories. I know I had at least 1 Chrome, a few Elites and Sterlings, and a few Platinums. If I sold any of them for over $150, I'd be shocked. Hell, with the amount of 2010 BCDP I opened, I probably divested about $10K worth of Trout "RC" at maybe $10/card, maybe.

Conversely, I know I sold a bunch of Jonathan Lucroy high end when he was the hottest catcher in baseball. Like a Chrome Red 5/5 for $400 that I don't think you could get $20 for today.

 

[Captain Feathersword]

I don't regret it because I didn't collect him and I sold it for $500, but I pulled the 7/10 of this back in the day: https://www.ebay.com/itm/2016-Allen...439335?hash=item28aa650667:g:TrMAAOSwta1gOrsB

 

[DeliciousBacon]

I pulled one of these and sold it for a $129.99 BIN, which was the general going rate at the time:

2017 Bowman Chrome Ronald Acuna 1st Purple Refractor Rookie Auto Autograph /250 | eBay

Serial Number 1"8/250.

www.ebay.com

 

[petMonster]

Ugh...I feel you. I cringe whenever I see Frank Thomas NNOF sales. I bought a BGS 8.5 in 2012 for $1800, had no choice but to sell it a year later for $2000, and then he was inducted a year later and the sales skyrocketed. Not even sure what an 8.5 goes for nowadays but I see a 6.5 listed at $11k. SMH

Stumbled across an ebay listing of a Mike Trout 2009 Bowman Sterling Auto and it brought back some bad memories...


What was a sale you look back on and makes you hate yourself? haha

 

[sjm76]

I rarely sell anything but I did sell most of my Mahomes RC’s because I couldn’t fathom what his cards were bringing when he hadn’t played. Worst was an NT RPA 3 color /99 which now sells raw for 50K+. I sold mine for 2900. Ugh


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I don't feel so bad now. I still don't think that anyone can top my 2000 Contenders Tom Brady auto sales but it's comforting to know that others have made similar bad decisions.