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What’s the one card you regret NOT buying?
I’ve been thinking about cards I passed on because I thought they were too expensive, didn’t need another one of that player, or figured I’d find it later.
Then, of course, the card disappears and the price doubles. 😂
What’s the one card you wish you had pulled the trigger on? Could be a card you saw at a show, passed on online, or even one you used to own and sold. For me it’s the multitude of Wemby cards that have blown up since the end of last season lol
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The first I can think of is this Strider rookie card when I knew NOTHING about collecting. I put it off and then the price went way up. As you can see I got it later but it taught me a good lesson. I knew that NL pitchers were not going to bat anymore and this would be a nice card to have…but I waited.
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That’s a great example of one of those collecting lessons you only have to learn once 😂. You actually recognized the card had something special going for it, you just waited. The “I’ll grab it later” cards are dangerous because sometimes later gets a LOT more expensive. At least you eventually got the Strider, so the lesson didn’t cost you forever!
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Now is the time to buy Strider since hes injured and hopefully comes back doing well next year
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It’s looking like he’s going to be one of those players who’s always hurt. I don’t see him as investment potential anymore but I still collect him because I like him
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Yeah which is a shame cause hes a great player
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Yeah, that’s the frustrating part. When he’s healthy, Strider is the kind of pitcher I’d want in my collection regardless of the investment side. Hopefully he can put together a stretch where he stays healthy, because it’d be a shame for injuries to be what defines his career.
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I’m concerned that so many of these guys who throw extreme heat won’t have long careers because the human body wasn’t made for the stresses that pitching motion puts on it. We’ll see. I hope I’m wrong. Strider is meticulous in taking care of his body, and if he can’t tolerate the stressors then I wonder if it’s even possible.
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Yeah, that’s the scary part. You see guys throwing harder and harder every year, but there has to be a point where the body just can’t keep up with what they’re asking it to do.
And Strider is a really interesting example because he seems to do everything he can to take care of himself. If even someone that meticulous keeps running into injuries, it definitely makes you wonder what the long-term outlook is for these high-velocity guys. Hopefully I’m wrong too, because watching a healthy Strider pitch is a lot of fun.
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Its not about buying but I wished I traded me and my dad’s Caleb Williams vertical kaboom + $100 cash for a Jordan fleer rookie PSA 10 instead we sold it for 2050 and both are work like $5k each now
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Oof, that one would hurt to look back on. 😬 Especially because it wasn’t just a card you sold—it was a card you and your dad owned together.
But hindsight in the hobby is brutal. Nobody knows which cards are going to explode five years later. At the time, turning it into $2,050 probably felt like a pretty great result.
Still… seeing both sitting around $5K now would have me staring at the old transaction like, “We could have had the Jordan AND kept the Kaboom.”
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