Your best and worst collecting decisons?

[blitzerlover]

A few of my Best:

Buying this for about $15:

Buying this for $15 as well:

Worst:

Selling my Hanson stash.

Selling this:

 

[Johan Santana 57]

selling a ryan howard BB rc auto for 27 bucks

Yeah it sold for 50x that later

 

[scotty21690]

That Spahn is niice! Too bad you don't have it anymore...


My best: Collecting prewar vintage

My worst: Not collecting prewar vintage earlier

 

[miguelcabrera]

Missing the ginter wood 1/1 of miggy by an hour- 100 BIN


picking up 2 miggy TT RC autos at great prices

 

[trademhigh]

Best:
Buying a Justin Upton Chrome Auto for 75 and then two weeks later sold it for 208.50.

Worst:
Selling my Longoria stash WAY too early.

 

[thenumberonemetfan]

Best:collecting Beltran
Worst:Not collecting him earlier(missed out on some huge cards)

 

[scotty21690]

Best:collecting Beltran
Worst:Not collecting him earlier(missed out on some huge cards)

Copycat :lol:

 

[daveyou]

best

buying this below for $399

then traded for

+ $350 paypal

total cost? $49

worst

purchased 2001 hank blalock topps retrofractor psa 10 for like $250....i still have it, collecting dust, using it as a beer bottle coaster

dave

 

[Adamsince1981]

Best:

Prospecting Troy Tulowitzki: I've sold him twice for profits. My current collection is awesome and worth more than I paid for it.

Also, collecting the St. Louis Cardinals.

Worst:

Not buying Ryan Howard when he was going for nothing. He played at my alma mater and I had no reason not to buy him up...if I would have...you know the story.

 

[thenumberonemetfan]

Best:collecting Beltran
Worst:Not collecting him earlier(missed out on some huge cards)

Copycat :lol:

But I added this
(missed out on some huge cards)

 

[hofautos]

best - lots of good flips (several from $500-1000, and none were prospects)

worst - rare minor league cards. They were HOT at one time. I sold before they came down to todays prices, but still lost a bundle.

This card once sold for over $2000 for a PSA 10....I paid about 200 for this one, and now it is probably under $100.

 

[JoshB.]

Best: Purchasing a Tim Lincecum Blue Refractor Auto for $180 in Spring Training.

Worst: Selling a Ryan Braun Rookie Auto for $5.

 

[hofautos]

Best: Purchasing a Tim Lincecum Blue Refractor Auto for $180 in Spring Training.

That may be your worst too, if you hold on to it too long (grin)

 

[nevermore]

Best: Not collecting in the late 90s. I can only imagine what the rarer O'Neill inserts/parallels would have cost back then!

Worst: Not buying Rivera autos when I first started collecting him in 2004 and spending my money instead on base/GU.

 

[GAbballplayer148]

Best: Selling my Burgess Red Ref for $1070

Worst: Trying to player collect a bunch of different guys when I began the hobby and buying retail boxes/packs throughout the years.

 

[miguelcabrera]

Best: Purchasing a Tim Lincecum Blue Refractor Auto for $180 in Spring Training.

That may be your worst too, if you hold on to it too long (grin)

darocker spent 750 on a gold

 

[JoshB.]

Best: Purchasing a Tim Lincecum Blue Refractor Auto for $180 in Spring Training.

That may be your worst too, if you hold on to it too long (grin)

Haha, actually I already traded it (for about $350 worth of cards/PayPal).

 

[Zan]

Start my player collection.

zan

 

[FortyFour]

Best: Collecting Travis Denker

Worst: Collecting Travis Denker

 

[chuckbartowski]

Bests: 2008 Ultimate Barrel Slice autos and 2008 Ultimate Patch autos
Worsts: Any time I bust wax