your top 5 regrets as a collector...

[BankruptCollector]

this thread could pertain to anything that you have regretted as a collector. for me atleast, my number one regret isn't that i started collecting...although my wallet and bank account might think so, but here's the list:

5: not buying HT's Mark I when i had the chance to buy it at retail

4: chipping a corner off of my d.vader bust

3: not joining rpf sooner

2: letting go of that life size R2 i saw at a auction

1: buying anything made from rubies with the notion that it's going to arrive as it looks in the pics without any mods.

feeel free to move this topic admins...my 2 cents.

 

[pixletwin]

Selling Darth Vader... TWICE
Selling my Vader/Luke head by Hurricane
Giving my Bride of Frankenstein away for FREE for some dumb reason
Selling my London After Midnight PF
My wife breaking my Elvis PF's guitar

 

[EVILFACE]

Selling my Rickenbacker bass.

That's about it.

 

[BankruptCollector]

Selling Darth Vader... TWICE
Selling my Vader/Luke head by Hurricane
Giving my Bride of Frankenstein away for FREE for some dumb reason
Selling my London After Midnight PF
My wife breaking my Elvis PF's guitar

i hear you on the last one bro, my wife has broken stuff too. my kid is also getting ready to walk, so im scared crapless right now.

 

[pixletwin]

Selling my Rickenbacker bass.

That's about it.

yeah that was dumb. Rickenbacker's are beautiful!

 

[karamazov80]

1) selling DX Batman for retail
2) selling DX Joker for retail
3) selling 2 Mech Test Tony Stark figures for around $100 each
4) selling Blade for $100
5) buying thousands of comic books in the 1990s

Primary lesson: don't sell anything
Secondary lesson: break Rob Liefeld's legs

 

[furystorm]

Are we in Star Wars here? Oh, well...

5. Collecting Gentle Giant, although I am happy to have finally received my last Harry Potter student today. Done.

4. Passing on the opportunity to buy a bronze Grendel, although I did correct that situation a mere six months later.

3. Finding Sideshow in the waning days of Universal Monster products, not that I own any now.

2. Parting with my SSE diorama collection, for fear of not being able to secure the next piece which I did not know would be the last.

1. Trading ASM 129 for Gold Foil Star Wars Dark Empire comics! WTF was I thinking?

 

[tomandshell]

Cancelling Dr. Doom PF EX.
Cancelling Hulk PF EX.
Cancelling Captain America PF EX.
Selling X-Men vs. Sentinel #1 EX diorama too soon.
Selling Grey Hulk vs. Spidey too soon.
Selling Iron Man comiquette EX too soon.
Selling Silver Screen Mummy PF at cost.
Having Sideshow cancel my Orthanc while I was on vacation.

 

[SixMillionDollarMan Guy]

Is this for Star Wars only?

 

[YoNoSe]

1) selling DX Batman for retail
2) selling DX Joker for retail
3) selling 2 Mech Test Tony Stark figures for around $100 each
4) selling Blade for $100
5) buying thousands of comic books in the 1990s

Primary lesson: don't sell anything
Secondary lesson: break Rob Liefeld's hands

Fixed. Come on, Kara.

 

[karamazov80]

1. Trading ASM 129 for Gold Foil Star Wars Dark Empire comics! WTF was I thinking?

When I was 10 or so, my friend's dad gave me a copy of Silver Surfer #1 (from the '60s). My much older cousins conned me into trading it for a few issues of Longshot

I'm still mad at those _______s for taking advantage of me that way.

 

[SixMillionDollarMan Guy]

1. Trading ASM 129 for Gold Foil Star Wars Dark Empire comics! WTF was I thinking?

What the Hell!

Is this for Star Wars only?

Guess not.

Passing on Dr. Doom PF Exclusive when it seemed to remain in stock for some time.

I think they go for $1500 plus now.

 

[BankruptCollector]

Is this for Star Wars only?

no, it can be for anything...

 

[karamazov80]

Fixed. Come on, Kara.

Despite all the atrocities he's committed. I'm not callous enough to take away that man's joys at buttoning up his button-fly jeans.

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[Kibishii]

1. Selling my Red Skull #7 EX PF to buy the Count Dooku PF that I turned around and sold at a loss
2. Selling my HT Leons (luckily, a fellow board member sold me an RPD Leon at a great price, so he is back in my collection)
3. Not buying the Doom EX when I could have got him for retail
4. Buying the Captain America regular instead of the EX when he was originally released

 

[batsheva]

1. Not buying the Sideshow Gambit Premium Format.
2. Not knowing how to use PayPal and eBay sooner.
3. Not buying the Sideshow Officer Kroenen 12 inch figure.
4. Buying lotsa useless crap figures that I don't even know how to put them because they took so many spaces and worse, are so dusty now.
5. Selling my Hot Toys Bank Robber Joker for just $125.

 

[ezewok]

dang this a great thread! i m going to be up all night thinking of mine.

 

[shocktrooper_au]

1.Buying all those damned hasbro figures
2.not selling all those hasbro figures
3. Not getting into Hottoys until after t800 Endo
4. Not buying a big enough house to show it all off

 

[automaton]

1. passing on two Mcfarlane Spider-Man full splash pages priced at $500 each.

2. passing on the original cover art to Spider-Man 301($3K)

3. passing on Dave Mckean's "Joker goosing Batman" painting from Arkham Asylum ($2800).

4. passing on a absolute MINT 1955 Gretsch Duo Jet Guitar for $2500.

5. passing on a 1963 MINT Gibson Thunderbird for $1300.


what they say is true… the things one didn't do are the real regrets. granted, i was very young and cash strapped… but perhaps if only i tried a little harder...

 

[Zeniff]

1. Not Buying HT Blade At Retail
2. Not Buying A Partial REAL HT Wolverine for $ 90.00
3. Not Buying A HT Iron Man Mark I For $225.00
4 Not Buying The Hulkbuster For $120.00
5. Buying So Many New Era Caps In 2009