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What stuff have you bought that you wish you never had ?

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Shadow

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Upper Deck football & basketball cards circa 1991/92. I must have gotten the collecting bug back after stopping comics some 6 years earlier. Thankfully, it didn't last, nor did it fill anywhere near the fondness hole in my heart from comics. Sadly, they're also not worth anything where I could trade them in for comic books. (Shaq rookie card anyone? lol )

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Pirate

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2 of every item from about 1988-1995 and then just one of everything after that. I've culled alot of that mess down, but it still is filling up my shed outside.

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The Troll King

The Troll King

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I'm pretty happy with most of my purchased but I still have tons of stuff that I'm going to get rid of eventually.

 

Even modern stuff I've been ok with the titles I've bought because I've been fairly selective.

 

I hate that I have a full run of 52 though. I tried to give DC a chance (having not really ever read anything DC) and this was definitely not the title to do it with. I still don't understand what happened!

 

Anyone want to buy a full run of 52 for $30? lol

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I'm with Nik on this one. Nothing.

 

I bought lot of books in the mid 80's just for the sake of buying them. Pretty much mainstream stuff (X-men, FF, Avengers, Hulk, Iron Man). I just never really enjoyed reading them. I stopped collecting in about 90 or 91 for 10 years.

 

The reason I don't regret it is because I gave all of the books I did not enjoy to my nephew who was about 5 years old. Probably about 300 comics. He has been reading and collecting comics ever since. Plus he gave all those books back to me about 7 years ago which brought me back into the hobby as well.

 

Now my almost 6 year old son has about 300 mid 80's comics plus whatever comics I buy now that end up not interesting me. Any book that I upgrade that has little or no resale value also goes in his box.

 

So for $150 maybe $200 box of comics created 1 reader, brought one back and may very well create one more. Not bad for a bunch of "drek". lol

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Joanna

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Far too much modern stuff. When I first got back in, the friend who got me buying comics was "advising" me on what to buy. Should never, ever, ever have listend to him. I finally realized that I was buying books and not reading them, so I switched to the ones I really wanted, gold and silver age. Those I never regretted buying, but I do regret selling them. Not that I didn't need to at the time, but dang, I wish I had them now.

 

- Joanna

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I am a Simon Bisley fan, and was introduced to him through Lobo. I pre-ordered the Lobo slipcase special, which contained some post cards and 3 graphic novels. Two were reprints, but the 3rd was an all new book, "The Wisdon of Lobo". I opened it up and it was all blank pages. Not a mis-print, but a cruel joke at the expense of the consumer.

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the blob

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anything i bought for cover or around cover in the early/mid 90s.

 

luckily, it wasn't that much stuff. if i actually paid retail for a total of one short box of comics I'd be surprised.

 

well, i didn't mind paying cover for Valiant's Magnus 1 & 2, but that was after the fact in 1999, when my LCS put a stack of each of them out on the new comics rack as a goof. They sat there for a while.

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CDaBruce

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Let's see...where should I begin...

 

Thousands upon thousands of late 90's early 00's Baseball cards. doh!

 

Starting Line-Up figures (from same period). :insane:

 

Episode I Star Wars figures. :boo:

 

Massive amounts of Mark McGwire memorabilia (after all, no one is going to beat 70 homers for a long time). :tonofbricks:

 

Massive amounts of Ken Griffey, Jr. memorabilia ( because we all know he was going to break Hammering Hank's all-time HR record). :juggle:

 

Overgraded raw eBay comic drek. :makepoint:

 

A few overzealous CGC purchases that in hindsight weren't the best finacial decisions. :P

 

 

I was reading through this thread, mentally jotting down my regrettable purchases. But then your post did it for me. I have every regrettable thing on this list (along with the same regrettable logic).

 

And to add to it:

POTF Star Wars Figures

88-92 Sports Cards

 

I had some luck unloading some of it at a yard sale. Actually got my money back on most of the sports cards. Maybe (as suggested in another thread) I should give the rest to my wayward mail carrier.

 

Makes me wonder what I am buying today that I will regret in 2020.

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