When I was a kid, at a card show, I wanted to buy 2 single cards, my dad said “For $60, let’s get a whole box of cards instead”. The box of cards we got = 1987 Fleer Basketball wax (not bad), the 2 cards I wanted = 1986 Fleer Michael Jordan RCs! 😩
A friend had earned 400 bit coins through a video game when they were worth a fraction of a penny and he gave them all away. Worth 40 million dollars today. 😂
If it makes you feel better I would have passed on it also. My worst mistake was in 1980 when I got back into collecting. My local comic/card store owner tried like heck to talk me into buying a 1959 Bob Gibson RC for $12, I passed & have regretted it to this day! Happy ending, my son bought the card for me a few years ago.
Buy the cards for the love of the game, for the emotional attachments, for the fun. If they are nothing but $$$, then you lost the original intent of collecting cards. We never cared if the card was dented or off center. Collect for the love, love what you collect. My major blunder was selling my Billy Martin baseball cards to eat because I didn't have two nickels to rub together. Ps. Yes I've given away or mangled cards worth hundreds of thousands. It's part of the flip.
Man that’s rough 😢 but I appreciate the clarity can’t win every time. The owner of my lcs told me he traded away a Mahomes rc auto low # and $200 cash for a Trubisky rookie auto 😬
This is a genuine vid and respect to the hobby bro. We have all been there and have done something like that at some point in our hobby lives. But being a good and honest collector buyer/seller will always even things out. Great videos! Don’t give up bro just keep doing what you are!
THIS is EXACTLY the type of video that haunts me! I got back into the hobby during COVID and over the next few years I've accumulated 50,000 or so cards and ... I'm NOT smart enough to be able to just "leaf through them" and pull out all of the valuable ones! AND I don't have enough time to go card-by-card looking up each card! So, therein lies the thing of nightmares ... wondering what I'm missing, passing over, about to sell for one one thousandth its worth, etc., etc., etc. Sorry you missed out, but I DO appreciate the honesty!
Thanks! Your best bet would be to find someone who has more knowledge than you. Have them go through and pull out anything that they know is valuable. There some card shops that will pull up comp values in front of you and offer you a % below that. You just got to find a trust worthy one.
So I walk into a LCS and I'm eyeballing Mahomes' PSA 10 RCs for $100 right before his big contract. I passed on them. Then a guy comes up to me after talking to the owner trying to sell his entire 5000 ct box of cards for $100. I overheard the owner telling him if the Brady RC was real it would be worth some money. I could tell he was making my GF nervous, so I told him I wasn't interested and that eBay was a great place to sell your cards. 😂 If it makes you feel any better, I wouldn't have had the patience to look through every card to even get there. Probably never would've even noticed. However, I was buying Brady like crazy last holiday season and am always a Brady buyer. So, if I would've seen it, I likely would've bought it.
A Brady rookie I am absolutely buying. His cheapest one is worth fifty, the one with him and Kevin O'Connell. No service right there is very tough though. I feel ya. Gotta brush it off.
That does hurt when you don't know or see something that has the potential to be a GEM. I am really sorry for your loss due to the hurricane. That hurts real bad. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family . Hope things bounce in the right direction for you.
I appreciate the kind words. We had a couple of thousand of dollars of property damage. We were very lucky. It just hurt our business for two months. We are back on track now. Thanks!
At the 4:20ish mark, those Top 100 cards at $1 is a hell of a steal. Those are case hits or SSPs. But most tend to go for $20+ on ebay. It just depends on the name
I'm a huge babe ruth collector...I actually passed up on a blue and a red version of a 1914 Baltimore News Babe Ruth about 4 years ago...and later came to realize they were both Authentic at the time I didn't know enough about authenticating prewar cards.. but now knowing about lithography and solid borders and which card stock should should be which thickness..I missed out on potentially 12 million dollars. This is coming from a collector with over 150 original Ruth cards graded by SGC and PSA. I will have a channel soon to share my story on huge losses and gains. Your video will forever remind me of my biggest loss. Love the channel BTW! Keep grind
I'm 35 now but when I was in elementary I had the biggest collection of charzards out of all my friends(I had 12 of them if I remember correctly) well I traded my whole Pokémon collection for basketball cards cause I couldn't get into Pokémon. Kick myself everyday for this
In 2019, I bought a box of 2018 topps finest baseball for around $100. I pulled gold /50 ohtani autograph. Sold it for $300, Now graded, it’s a $10,000-$20,000 card
We all have collecting stories like this, mine was I was offered a Roger Staubach rookie card for 50.00 back in the late 80’s at a comic store and passed on it. I still kick myself for that. Also had a chance for some comic deals in the early 90’s that I just go why did I pass on the deals. Just enjoy the hunt, you never know what you may find.
Is this Webster? I’ve been there a couple times and if I recall correctly that second seller is actually one of the better sellers price wise, the past couple times I’ve gone I’ve gotten almost nothing and then got to his table and spent like 50 bucks on cool cards
Oh! Man that sucks about the Tom Brady. In 2000 I pulled two sweet Tom Brady rookies. The SPX and the short print Pacific numbered to 181. I traded both the same year for a Kurt Warner RC hand numbered which is not worth those Brady's. But a few years ago I picked up the Tom Brady Gold Reserve rookie cheap and still have it. My friend passed on the 1990 Topps no name Frank Thomas for $30. Great video. 🙂
You lucked out - this is actually a counterfeit copy of that card. You can tell by looking at the resolution, the feel, etc. I've looked through this exact box at Webster before. The Caitlin Clark cards that are designed to look like the popular 1998 SP rookies are not real licensed cards either.
@@blainepsteelersfan4123 The ones that have the old 1998-99 SP Authentic design? Absolutely not. And people are distributing fake Wemby's like that, too.
I bought a 2000 Tom Brady Fleer Autographics for $7.50. I sold in 2015, because I needed money for Christmas, for $300. Last I looked it was selling for $2000+/-.... oh well 🤷♂️
ive got one, before the boom i sold 2 2000 sp authentic wax boxes with the brady rookie for 150 bucks a box. a year or 2 later and they go for 4 to 6 thousand a box. and what's more , i bought a case and opened all the boxes but these 2 and i got no brady's so the odds were alot better that these two boxes may have contained a brady rookie. STUPID ME. i have a lot of stories like this. i sold my collection years ago and now i have no more bad deals stories.
@@PickingandPunchingCards i decided to sell the 2000 sp authentic boxes because i was having financial problems and needed the money. i should have held them a little longer but .... not the case. Tom Brady rookie cards had not really taken off at that time. Just bad luck i guess. thank you.
Not sure if you are familiar with reprints but it could be possible this card you passed on was indeed a reprint more then likely. One is on ebay on bids for over 100 and in the description says reprint. Good luck on future finds hopefully this might give you some peace of mind.
When I was a kid and my dad would take us to card shows we always talked about buying the iconic Jordan 86 RC but because it was $350 it was totally too expensive lol I don’t have to finish this story so don’t feel bad man Great video!!
Tough to buy unopened packs theses days or sealed cases not direct from the source. You all must of heard of the how they have been scamming folks for years. Now that it has gotten out the market must be tanking, long live the PSA graded ✌🏻💚🙏🏻
I agree, it has gotten tough. I only buy cheap boxes, junk wax, or non-sport boxes in the wild. I stay away from high end stuff. I go direct to the source to get that stuff.
The way you told the story was a doozy 😂 got us all hyped that you found it...then you tell us you put it back 😭 That's Tuff. Keep going back till you find it again. Even if it's long gone....keep looking...hold on to hope. There's an old jukebox out there somewhere playing Fleetwood Mac "Don't stop thinking about tomorrow" just for you!
Sorry to hear that, but I also made a bigger mistake at a flea market here in NJ had 3 rookie TB , 1 that was auto, dude stole it, should of NEVER had it with me at the market, made me sick, over it now, good luck with the hobby
$30 is the going rate for a Tom Brady Topps Promotion reprint card. I have that card, too. I think the last ebay on that card was $27.00, if memory serves. So, you did ok by putting it back.
💯that it was a reprint. Exactly like my copy. The print is darker on the back than a real one. I look at that card everyday and wish it were real…….if only………
I have sooo many stories similar to this. I sold a Mahommes 1/1 RPA two months before the pandemic hit. I got good money but would have gotten God money had I waited.
Sorry you missed that card! I haven't really bought cards since my childhood days, in the junk wax era. I have missed out on buying things for reselling though. Like a Flowbee, before I knew it had good resale value. I did notice, are you psychic? Saying Mac Jones would take over if Trevor Lawrence got hurt. =)
Kudos to you for sharing this painful story - I am not a card collector but you deserved that score - sorry you missed it. I have lost things as well and regretted it. Nothing that valuable... but some good finds! Liked and subscribed - hang in there!!! Picking and puinching.
Yadier Molina rc 1/1 blue Bowman. Did buy for $40 his rookie year and sold for $80. Did double my money but if I still had it I would be very happy lol. 😂
When i was 16 back in the early 2000s i used to set up at shows someone came up with a Jordan kobe and LeBron triple auto from exquisite and wanted 3k for it i could not afford it but earlier this year it sold for 1.5 million
@@PickingandPunchingCards yes there are old topps packs that had those send in ads for each pack that are worthless but then Tom Brady was a 6th round pick so they would not have used him as a generic promo and it looked cool so definitely warranted not just dumping it back immediately...but dont beat yourself up over it as many would have missed it as well.
Damn. Just damn. I wouldn't be able to sleep either. If it makes you feel any better, I bought a blue 1st Bowman /150 Elly De La Cruz RC auto PSA 10 at the absolute height of the market. Shortly after he hit for the cycle his rookie season. And I 💯 knew better.
I been in the card business over 20 years Brady bc I’m from NE had a ton of stuff prob a 100k worth and I was not aware of that red redemption Brady. Never seen 1.
They had 75 rookie cards in bowman 2000. They only released 250 of each players redemption card. I had no idea it was a thing either until I came across this. I stopped collecting cards back in 1999/2000. I missed out on all the Brady releases back in the day. Talk about a bad time to stop collecting 🤦🏼♂️.
Ugh sorry man - that sucks - great video though - we all make mistakes and I agree the back of that card with the mail away info doesn’t make it look overly exciting. I’ve made a ton of memorabilia mistakes but my biggest card mistake was selling a jordan rookie that I pulled from a pack as a kid far too soon - got it graded ( a 7) and sold it in the 2000’s for a fraction of what they bring now
Ugh. You are right 🤦🏼♂️. I wasn’t even thinking like that at the moment. I was at the flea market for hours that day and this was one of my last stops. Flea market fatigue was setting in.
@@PickingandPunchingCards yup understandable...but unless you are absolutely sure you dont want it, i would put it in the 'pile' as usually the seller makes a great deal and has throw ins at the end. Also, there may be other people going through the boxes at the same time and you dont want to put it back and let them get it before you make your final decision specially if you are not sure yet. Imagine if someone grabbed it in front of you when you put it back...the pain would even be more. Anyway, weve all had bad buying/selling experience. In most cases if you are not sure..buy it..the ones that got away sting more than the ones i over paid for he he.
@PickingandPunchingCards Yeah for sure I'm always out looking for yard sale collectibles.. The one thing I always do is ask at every sale for cards. They usually say oh wait I got that stuff. Haha and usually let go for amazing price
biggest mistake i ever made was selling my Great Grandfathers Lou Gehrig 33 & 34 Goudey cards he gave back in 1987 and till this day i have dreams of "what if i did not visit the local shop "Kard King" and get hustled 🤔 sold the 2 cards in "trade for JUNK WAX ERA and that was 1989 1990 junk for $300.00 all i saw $$$$ for trade....Biggest mistake ever and did not know better i was very young.......Funny thing is though my father says all the time that Great Grandpa slaps me when i don't expect it....🤣 like he haunts me or some stuff like that....Either way they were awesome cards to own for awhile brought them to school for Show and Tell sometimes.....Good memories and Bad 💯✌
I missed 5000 Jordan cards in binders for 6 bucks, my bid was 401.00 it sold for 407.00 probably valued at 25000 , it was late , i was tired, total blew your screw up out of the water bro, mine was 10 times worse
Missed a team had my payment ready, pyt and someone beat me to it and got a nice hit.. 1500$ card pulled could have been mine.. or a wemby /5 green pulsar select missed the chaser .. it hurts man... Hope all is well with you and your company
Thanks for sharing this and bummer on the loss dude I feel your pain but hey you got some other great deals so still a win just not as good as it could of been and my biggest loss was In 1992 my uncle took me to go get some stuff from our local convenience store and he let me buy a pack of score well I pulled at that time my biggest hit and I pulled a Joe DiMaggio auto well after going home put in my top loader well a little while later as we lived in a trailer my mom owned she lost the trailer while having it in storage as she had moved us into an actual house that card was in it and I lost it always missed that card not so much for its fiscal value as much as the sentimental value and now 30 years later I still miss that card
That would have been an awesome card to own. At least you hang the memory of pulling it from a pack. As a kid I would have lost my mind pulling that out, lol.
so i pulled a juan soto auto rc out of a hanger box, at time i knew it was a good pull but thought i should get rid of it while it was worth something, sold it for $118 and 2 months later he wins the world series and that card prolly worth close to if not $1000 now.. i pulled a wander franco ssp rc out of a hanger box and at time was like a $5000+ card so im like i should hang on to this one prolly a $5 card now lol smfh
Sorry to hear that. I live in the Tampa Bay Area and there were so many people here who got screwed on their Wander Franco cards. I have a lot of buddies who lost thousands on him.
What planet are you from that you think that's a $5000 card? Dec 20th sale on E-Bay for $100. Previous sale before that $199. My dude, there was one "sale" on E-Bay for $5000 which was an auction. And the seller relisted the card, which means the bidder didn't buy it! At $30, it was a good deal, but its not a $5000 card by a longshot!
2 things i want to tell you : 1- you can’t consider something you didn’t buy cause you didn’t felt it was worth much as a ‘lost’. A lost is something you actually purchased and sell for less than you bought it for. 2- you did got out of there with a pretty good deal for what you picked up. I understand how you feel but i think i can be the voice of all collectors here by saying that we all have passed on cards that thought were not worth much by going in bins. It’s all about the knowledge of the cards and it’s simply impossible to know everything since the variety is so wide if you consider you need to know about 4 major sports + everything that is not sports related.. So don’t sleep on it for too long, you’ll rebound off this.. :-)
2 things i want to tell you : 1- you can’t consider something you didn’t buy cause you didn’t felt it was worth much as a ‘lost’. A lost is something you actually purchased and sell for less than you bought it for. 2- you did got out of there with a pretty good deal for what you picked up. I understand how you feel but i think i can be the voice of all collectors here by saying that we all have passed on cards that thought were not worth much by going in bins. It’s all about the knowledge of the cards and it’s simply impossible to know everything since the variety is so wide if you consider you need to know about 4 major sports + everything that is not sports related.. So don’t sleep on it for too long, you’ll rebound off this.. :-)
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When I was a kid, at a card show, I wanted to buy 2 single cards, my dad said “For $60, let’s get a whole box of cards instead”. The box of cards we got = 1987 Fleer Basketball wax (not bad), the 2 cards I wanted = 1986 Fleer Michael Jordan RCs! 😩
Ugh…if we could only go back in time.
I saw a Brett hull card
A friend had earned 400 bit coins through a video game when they were worth a fraction of a penny and he gave them all away. Worth 40 million dollars today. 😂
OMG! That’s insane.
If it makes you feel better I would have passed on it also. My worst mistake was in 1980 when I got back into collecting. My local comic/card store owner tried like heck to talk me into buying a 1959 Bob Gibson RC for $12, I passed & have regretted it to this day! Happy ending, my son bought the card for me a few years ago.
Love a great ending!
Sick card congrats 👏
Buy the cards for the love of the game, for the emotional attachments, for the fun. If they are nothing but $$$, then you lost the original intent of collecting cards. We never cared if the card was dented or off center. Collect for the love, love what you collect. My major blunder was selling my Billy Martin baseball cards to eat because I didn't have two nickels to rub together. Ps. Yes I've given away or mangled cards worth hundreds of thousands. It's part of the flip.
Man that’s rough 😢 but I appreciate the clarity can’t win every time. The owner of my lcs told me he traded away a Mahomes rc auto low # and $200 cash for a Trubisky rookie auto 😬
This is a genuine vid and respect to the hobby bro. We have all been there and have done something like that at some point in our hobby lives. But being a good and honest collector buyer/seller will always even things out. Great videos! Don’t give up bro just keep doing what you are!
Thanks man! I really appreciate it.
THIS is EXACTLY the type of video that haunts me! I got back into the hobby during COVID and over the next few years I've accumulated 50,000 or so cards and ... I'm NOT smart enough to be able to just "leaf through them" and pull out all of the valuable ones! AND I don't have enough time to go card-by-card looking up each card! So, therein lies the thing of nightmares ... wondering what I'm missing, passing over, about to sell for one one thousandth its worth, etc., etc., etc.
Sorry you missed out, but I DO appreciate the honesty!
Thanks! Your best bet would be to find someone who has more knowledge than you. Have them go through and pull out anything that they know is valuable. There some card shops that will pull up comp values in front of you and offer you a % below that. You just got to find a trust worthy one.
So I walk into a LCS and I'm eyeballing Mahomes' PSA 10 RCs for $100 right before his big contract. I passed on them. Then a guy comes up to me after talking to the owner trying to sell his entire 5000 ct box of cards for $100. I overheard the owner telling him if the Brady RC was real it would be worth some money. I could tell he was making my GF nervous, so I told him I wasn't interested and that eBay was a great place to sell your cards. 😂
If it makes you feel any better, I wouldn't have had the patience to look through every card to even get there. Probably never would've even noticed. However, I was buying Brady like crazy last holiday season and am always a Brady buyer. So, if I would've seen it, I likely would've bought it.
A Brady rookie I am absolutely buying. His cheapest one is worth fifty, the one with him and Kevin O'Connell. No service right there is very tough though. I feel ya. Gotta brush it off.
I agree, I should have bought it. Flea markets and card shows are tough when you don’t have service.
That does hurt when you don't know or see something that has the potential to be a GEM.
I am really sorry for your loss due to the hurricane. That hurts real bad.
My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family . Hope things bounce in the right direction for you.
I appreciate the kind words. We had a couple of thousand of dollars of property damage. We were very lucky. It just hurt our business for two months. We are back on track now. Thanks!
At the 4:20ish mark, those Top 100 cards at $1 is a hell of a steal. Those are case hits or SSPs. But most tend to go for $20+ on ebay. It just depends on the name
@@BigDieselKards I had no idea. Thanks man. I just got Back into cards in the last year. I stopped collecting in 1999-2000.
I'm a huge babe ruth collector...I actually passed up on a blue and a red version of a 1914 Baltimore News Babe Ruth about 4 years ago...and later came to realize they were both Authentic at the time I didn't know enough about authenticating prewar cards.. but now knowing about lithography and solid borders and which card stock should should be which thickness..I missed out on potentially 12 million dollars. This is coming from a collector with over 150 original Ruth cards graded by SGC and PSA. I will have a channel soon to share my story on huge losses and gains. Your video will forever remind me of my biggest loss. Love the channel BTW! Keep grind
I'm 35 now but when I was in elementary I had the biggest collection of charzards out of all my friends(I had 12 of them if I remember correctly) well I traded my whole Pokémon collection for basketball cards cause I couldn't get into Pokémon. Kick myself everyday for this
If we only knew what we know now back then.
In 2019, I bought a box of 2018 topps finest baseball for around $100. I pulled gold /50 ohtani autograph. Sold it for $300, Now graded, it’s a $10,000-$20,000 card
Oh man. At least you still made a profit on it.
I remember trading a second year Nolan Ryan card for some....Sportflics cards. They were new and cool at the time. Whoops a daisy!
Oh man. I can see the appeal of those when they came out. There wasn’t anything like it.
Or what time on the video
We all have collecting stories like this, mine was I was offered a Roger Staubach rookie card for 50.00 back in the late 80’s at a comic store and passed on it. I still kick myself for that. Also had a chance for some comic deals in the early 90’s that I just go why did I pass on the deals. Just enjoy the hunt, you never know what you may find.
Great statement “Just enjoy the hunt” because everything else is a bonus!
Way back I Sold a Brady 2000 Contenders Championship Rookie Ticket auto for $4k because I paid $400 for it. It’s a 6 figure+ card now.
Damn. You did 10x your original investment but it’s crazy to think about what could of been. Sorry man.
Is this Webster? I’ve been there a couple times and if I recall correctly that second seller is actually one of the better sellers price wise, the past couple times I’ve gone I’ve gotten almost nothing and then got to his table and spent like 50 bucks on cool cards
It is Webster. The flea market is hit or miss.
great find. Card is real. Oh, you didn't get, don't feel bad sold a bunch of Bradys for a fraction of what they go for now.
I heard a bunch of his stuff had dropped in price. Sorry
Oh! Man that sucks about the Tom Brady. In 2000 I pulled two sweet Tom Brady rookies. The SPX and the short print Pacific numbered to 181. I traded both the same year for a Kurt Warner RC hand numbered which is not worth those Brady's. But a few years ago I picked up the Tom Brady Gold Reserve rookie cheap and still have it. My friend passed on the 1990 Topps no name Frank Thomas for $30. Great video. 🙂
The no name Frank Thomas! One of the most famous error cards out there. I have wanted that card since my childhood.
Oh man Rod, that's brutal. Really appreciate you putting out the video though!
Thank you.
How about a stack of 50 - 1989 Upper Deck #1 Ken Griffeys that I bought early from a set-sorter for $10, and sold off for $3/apiece….BIG MISTAKE….
Oh no! I love that card. So iconic.
love the honesty. thanks!
Thanks man.
You lucked out - this is actually a counterfeit copy of that card. You can tell by looking at the resolution, the feel, etc. I've looked through this exact box at Webster before. The Caitlin Clark cards that are designed to look like the popular 1998 SP rookies are not real licensed cards either.
LOL stop it.
All of the Clark's are real though.
@@blainepsteelersfan4123 The ones that have the old 1998-99 SP Authentic design? Absolutely not. And people are distributing fake Wemby's like that, too.
That’s good to know. I feel better knowing that someone else looked at it.
I bought a 2000 Tom Brady Fleer Autographics for $7.50. I sold in 2015, because I needed money for Christmas, for $300. Last I looked it was selling for $2000+/-.... oh well 🤷♂️
On the bright side, at least you made some good money off it. Plus you took care of Christmas presents.
That sums it up, "it happens", stay strong as other opportunities will pop up.
This is true. You can’t win them all
What’s the card he didn’t pick up?
ive got one, before the boom i sold 2 2000 sp authentic wax boxes with the brady rookie for 150 bucks a box. a year or 2 later and they go for 4 to 6 thousand a box. and what's more , i bought a case and opened all the boxes but these 2 and i got no brady's so the odds were alot better that these two boxes may have contained a brady rookie. STUPID ME. i have a lot of stories like this. i sold my collection years ago and now i have no more bad deals stories.
We all have stories like this in the card industry. What made you decide to sell off your last two boxes instead of opening them?
@@PickingandPunchingCards i decided to sell the 2000 sp authentic boxes because i was having financial problems and needed the money. i should have held them a little longer but .... not the case. Tom Brady rookie cards had not really taken off at that time. Just bad luck i guess. thank you.
Not sure if you are familiar with reprints but it could be possible this card you passed on was indeed a reprint more then likely. One is on ebay on bids for over 100 and in the description says reprint. Good luck on future finds hopefully this might give you some peace of mind.
Possibly could have been. Hopefully for the person that got it, scores big.
I wouldn't have paid $20 for it, you did the right thing. That doesn't have much value..
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When I was a kid and my dad would take us to card shows we always talked about buying the iconic Jordan 86 RC but because it was $350 it was totally too expensive lol I don’t have to finish this story so don’t feel bad man Great video!!
Good video and sorry about the card..... Hopefully a kid found it and will keep it for the rest of his life
That would be great!
Tough to buy unopened packs theses days or sealed cases not direct from the source. You all must of heard of the how they have been scamming folks for years. Now that it has gotten out the market must be tanking, long live the PSA graded ✌🏻💚🙏🏻
I agree, it has gotten tough. I only buy cheap boxes, junk wax, or non-sport boxes in the wild. I stay away from high end stuff. I go direct to the source to get that stuff.
The way you told the story was a doozy 😂 got us all hyped that you found it...then you tell us you put it back 😭 That's Tuff. Keep going back till you find it again. Even if it's long gone....keep looking...hold on to hope. There's an old jukebox out there somewhere playing Fleetwood Mac "Don't stop thinking about tomorrow" just for you!
😂😂😂. At least this made me laugh. Thanks!
I would have thought of it as junk but still would have bought it to take a chance.
I think that’s what I was thinking and wasn’t worth me sending $30 on it 🤦🏼♂️. I bet if it was $10 or something I would have bought it. Ugh..,
Tried to pull something out of l 3k in boxes and got barely 100 dollars out of it 😢
Ouch. That’s a tough one.
Yeah
So I sold a MJ Exclamation Point insert for like $30 looked up after card was like $4000 graded
Sorry to hear that, but I also made a bigger mistake at a flea market here in NJ had 3 rookie TB , 1 that was auto, dude stole it, should of NEVER had it with me at the market, made me sick, over it now, good luck with the hobby
I’m so sorry that happen to you.
$30 is the going rate for a Tom Brady Topps Promotion reprint card. I have that card, too. I think the last ebay on that card was $27.00, if memory serves. So, you did ok by putting it back.
That would be great if it was the reprint. It would help put my mind at ease.
💯that it was a reprint. Exactly like my copy. The print is darker on the back than a real one. I look at that card everyday and wish it were real…….if only………
I have sooo many stories similar to this. I sold a Mahommes 1/1 RPA two months before the pandemic hit. I got good money but would have gotten God money had I waited.
Oh man, that’s brutal. At least you made some good money from it.
Sorry you missed that card! I haven't really bought cards since my childhood days, in the junk wax era. I have missed out on buying things for reselling though. Like a Flowbee, before I knew it had good resale value. I did notice, are you psychic? Saying Mac Jones would take over if Trevor Lawrence got hurt. =)
Haha. I was waiting for someone to bring that up. It was more knowing the Jaguars are horrible this year, lol.
Kudos to you for sharing this painful story - I am not a card collector but you deserved that score - sorry you missed it. I have lost things as well and regretted it. Nothing that valuable... but some good finds! Liked and subscribed - hang in there!!! Picking and puinching.
Thank you for your support.
Yadier Molina rc 1/1 blue Bowman. Did buy for $40 his rookie year and sold for $80. Did double my money but if I still had it I would be very happy lol. 😂
Ugh. But at least you still made a profit it from it. Better than nothing 🤷♂️
It happens to everyone you pick up a item not realize what worth then put back
Happens all the time in the picking world.
When i was 16 back in the early 2000s i used to set up at shows someone came up with a Jordan kobe and LeBron triple auto from exquisite and wanted 3k for it i could not afford it but earlier this year it sold for 1.5 million
Omg! That would have been a crazy pickup at the time.
Bro on the front it literally said ROOKIE Tom brady
It was back that threw me off.
@@PickingandPunchingCards yes there are old topps packs that had those send in ads for each pack that are worthless but then Tom Brady was a 6th round pick so they would not have used him as a generic promo and it looked cool so definitely warranted not just dumping it back immediately...but dont beat yourself up over it as many would have missed it as well.
I sold a Michael Jordan Card ( 1986 Fleer)for 150 bucks. It was back in the early 90s but nevertheless is definitely a regret.
Ugh. They were so cheap back in the day, sorry man. That card is on my card bucket list.
EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES 😅!
This is true.
@@PickingandPunchingCards Dwelling on your mistake is not gonna fix the issue let it go.....
that sucks rod. it will come back to you someday!!
Thanks
Damn. Just damn. I wouldn't be able to sleep either. If it makes you feel any better,
I bought a blue 1st Bowman /150 Elly De La Cruz RC auto PSA 10 at the absolute height of the market. Shortly after he hit for the cycle his rookie season. And I 💯 knew better.
Sometimes we just can’t help ourselves. He was having a crazy run at that time. Hopefully he starts the season off hot for you.
@ I know. Sometimes these pieces of cardboard just put a spell on us 🌀
@ I couldn’t have said it any better than that! It’s so true.
Why not go back and try and find the guy?
@@NCal82 I did, unfortunately it was gone and he didn’t have it.
@PickingandPunchingCards Wonder who bought it,hard to know the value of all life's treasures bro.
Damn! Sorry man! You'll find a banger here soon! Believe!
Thanks
Have I ever seen this before? Am I going to miss the $30 more than whatever it is that I could buy? We should only regret the things we don't do.
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My L is for my dad, whos mom threw out all his baseball cards from the 60s he had as a child 😢
@@kevintennill1690 that happen to sooooo many kids back then. I can only imagine what they had.
I have two Jerry Rice rookies that I got as a kid and didn't take care of.
We all have cards that we didn’t take care of as a kid.
These cards are expensive. You should pick more of them
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No matter what. You grab that Brady 🤫🤦🏻♂️
You are right. I should have.
I been in the card business over 20 years Brady bc I’m from NE had a ton of stuff prob a 100k worth and I was not aware of that red redemption Brady. Never seen 1.
They had 75 rookie cards in bowman 2000. They only released 250 of each players redemption card. I had no idea it was a thing either until I came across this. I stopped collecting cards back in 1999/2000. I missed out on all the Brady releases back in the day. Talk about a bad time to stop collecting 🤦🏼♂️.
Well, that sucks brother! I had 3 Billy ripken error cards and traded for some rookies that didn't pan out in the 90s 😅
so THIS is why Trevor got hurt🤣 im a die hard Jax Jags fan so thanks for that lol i do like Mac Jones tho. local legend. God bless you brother.
I knew someone was going to bring that up. 😂😂😂.
@@PickingandPunchingCardshaha! 😅 just impeccable timing honestly.
Mac is the worst NFL qb I've ever seen and somehow also the cockiest. He is must watch tv.
Ugh sorry man - that sucks - great video though - we all make mistakes and I agree the back of that card with the mail away info doesn’t make it look overly exciting. I’ve made a ton of memorabilia mistakes but my biggest card mistake was selling a jordan rookie that I pulled from a pack as a kid far too soon - got it graded ( a 7) and sold it in the 2000’s for a fraction of what they bring now
Thanks man. It was rough. Jordan rookie is on my card bucket list.
Its payback from the previous collection buy
Haha..you got me
It said $30 and had wiggle room so you could have probably got it for $15 or $20. Make a pile and get further discounts
Ugh. You are right 🤦🏼♂️. I wasn’t even thinking like that at the moment. I was at the flea market for hours that day and this was one of my last stops. Flea market fatigue was setting in.
@@PickingandPunchingCards yup understandable...but unless you are absolutely sure you dont want it, i would put it in the 'pile' as usually the seller makes a great deal and has throw ins at the end. Also, there may be other people going through the boxes at the same time and you dont want to put it back and let them get it before you make your final decision specially if you are not sure yet. Imagine if someone grabbed it in front of you when you put it back...the pain would even be more. Anyway, weve all had bad buying/selling experience. In most cases if you are not sure..buy it..the ones that got away sting more than the ones i over paid for he he.
😮 Dang I wouldn't be able to sleep either. But I'm sure you will have another opportunity
There are plenty out there.
@PickingandPunchingCards Yeah for sure I'm always out looking for yard sale collectibles.. The one thing I always do is ask at every sale for cards. They usually say oh wait I got that stuff. Haha and usually let go for amazing price
@ that’s normally how I find my deals as well. The power of the ask goes a long way.
Mine was the mike trout bowman rookie signature card I got rid of to early
Ugh, sorry to hear that. I wish he would stay health.
its a fake
@@johannadam8134 is it? How can you tell?
Looked real to me.
biggest mistake i ever made was selling my Great Grandfathers Lou Gehrig 33 & 34 Goudey cards he gave back in 1987 and till this day i have dreams of "what if i did not visit the local shop "Kard King" and get hustled 🤔 sold the 2 cards in "trade for JUNK WAX ERA and that was 1989 1990 junk for $300.00 all i saw $$$$ for trade....Biggest mistake ever and did not know better i was very young.......Funny thing is though my father says all the time that Great Grandpa slaps me when i don't expect it....🤣 like he haunts me or some stuff like that....Either way they were awesome cards to own for awhile brought them to school for Show and Tell sometimes.....Good memories and Bad 💯✌
@@WAUK-TOWN74 wow! Crazy cards to own. Love the story especially the part about him haunting you 😂. Thanks for sharing.
I missed 5000 Jordan cards in binders for 6 bucks, my bid was 401.00 it sold for 407.00 probably valued at 25000 , it was late , i was tired, total blew your screw up out of the water bro, mine was 10 times worse
Wow! Thats crazy.
Nolan Ryan Rookie Card - I bought it ang lost it on the way home.
@@chadcooper1615 no way! Did you have any idea on how that happen?
Nope, either fell into my pocket or someone swiped it off me
That was a reprint Brady. From 2024 topps Composite. Hope you feel better.
That would make me feel better. I look up Topps composite but didn’t see it
That’s not correct. It was not from Topps composite…..
@@TheBargainBoxer i didn’t see think so. I looked through the check list and didn’t see it.
You said make you feel better
@@jessicalightner7947 lol, this is true.
Missed a team had my payment ready, pyt and someone beat me to it and got a nice hit.. 1500$ card pulled could have been mine.. or a wemby /5 green pulsar select missed the chaser .. it hurts man... Hope all is well with you and your company
Thanks for sharing this and bummer on the loss dude I feel your pain but hey you got some other great deals so still a win just not as good as it could of been and my biggest loss was In 1992 my uncle took me to go get some stuff from our local convenience store and he let me buy a pack of score well I pulled at that time my biggest hit and I pulled a Joe DiMaggio auto well after going home put in my top loader well a little while later as we lived in a trailer my mom owned she lost the trailer while having it in storage as she had moved us into an actual house that card was in it and I lost it always missed that card not so much for its fiscal value as much as the sentimental value and now 30 years later I still miss that card
That would have been an awesome card to own. At least you hang the memory of pulling it from a pack. As a kid I would have lost my mind pulling that out, lol.
Its ok you win and sometimes you loss
@@coreymcdaniels9910 you are def right. I just use this as a learning experience.
No cell phone service to look up the Brady... dude, it was not meant to be.
This is true. You are right.
so i pulled a juan soto auto rc out of a hanger box, at time i knew it was a good pull but thought i should get rid of it while it was worth something, sold it for $118 and 2 months later he wins the world series and that card prolly worth close to if not $1000 now.. i pulled a wander franco ssp rc out of a hanger box and at time was like a $5000+ card so im like i should hang on to this one prolly a $5 card now lol smfh
Sorry to hear that. I live in the Tampa Bay Area and there were so many people here who got screwed on their Wander Franco cards. I have a lot of buddies who lost thousands on him.
Amateur mistake putting the brady back
@@PIP-zf9yb you don’t say, lol
Damn dude...it happens! I sold a patrick mahomes 2nd year Autograph from certified football #/50 smh 🤦
Oh no...I am sure that one haunts you.
What planet are you from that you think that's a $5000 card? Dec 20th sale on E-Bay for $100. Previous sale before that $199. My dude, there was one "sale" on E-Bay for $5000 which was an auction. And the seller relisted the card, which means the bidder didn't buy it!
At $30, it was a good deal, but its not a $5000 card by a longshot!
That would make me feel better. I watched that auction live back in November live when it ended. That day has haunted me.
I dont believe it, after you stopped recording you bought that Brady Rc. 😂
I really wish that was the case. The back of the card threw me off.
Ugh, get em next time
I’m sure there will be plenty of more times like this.
2 things i want to tell you : 1- you can’t consider something you didn’t buy cause you didn’t felt it was worth much as a ‘lost’. A lost is something you actually purchased and sell for less than you bought it for. 2- you did got out of there with a pretty good deal for what you picked up. I understand how you feel but i think i can be the voice of all collectors here by saying that we all have passed on cards that thought were not worth much by going in bins. It’s all about the knowledge of the cards and it’s simply impossible to know everything since the variety is so wide if you consider you need to know about 4 major sports + everything that is not sports related.. So don’t sleep on it for too long, you’ll rebound off this.. :-)
Great points! Thank you!
Oof you'll be Allright tho
You right! Just moving on to the next.
Why did you wait a whole month to go back why didn't you go back right away
Fake or not !!! Only 30$ bring it home and do authenticity to get 5000$. Very worth to risk and gamble
I had no idea what the kind was at the time. I should have bought it.
2 things i want to tell you : 1- you can’t consider something you didn’t buy cause you didn’t felt it was worth much as a ‘lost’. A lost is something you actually purchased and sell for less than you bought it for. 2- you did got out of there with a pretty good deal for what you picked up. I understand how you feel but i think i can be the voice of all collectors here by saying that we all have passed on cards that thought were not worth much by going in bins. It’s all about the knowledge of the cards and it’s simply impossible to know everything since the variety is so wide if you consider you need to know about 4 major sports + everything that is not sports related.. So don’t sleep on it for too long, you’ll rebound off this.. :-)
Thank you! Great response. You are right.