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What's your one big regret that still bites you in the *ahem* spoon?

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Garf

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Doesn't matter if it is comics or art I really don't mind the stuff that is out of my league, that I can accept without a problem. It's the ones that got away that I can't seem to shake. You know? Coulda, shoulda, woulda.... I honestly thought that after 2 - 3 years I wouldn't be so bothered but I can't let go. Seems as though I love returning to this hobby and hate it at the same time.

 

For me it''s 3 Knightfall pages that I missed out on which I doubt will ever surface again, almost certainly not for the same price.

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Dr. Balls

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Having to move back home after our restaurant failed in NYC.

 

-slym

 

NYC is a cruel mistress. I had to move back home after a failed business venture in NYC back in 2009. Took a few years to get back up again, and life is good - but I'll always miss the city.

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JAM_NYC

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Having to move back home after our restaurant failed in NYC.

 

-slym

 

NYC is a cruel mistress. I had to move back home after a failed business venture in NYC back in 2009. Took a few years to get back up again, and life is good - but I'll always miss the city.

If you can make it there

You'll make it anywhere!

It's up to you

New York, New York!!!

 

Where was your restaurant Slym? That's a tough biz, especially around here.

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Dr. Balls

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Comic related: I sold a huge portion of my collection awhile back, so I have various degrees of regret on some books, but the one that really bugs me is selling off a JSC sketch on a DIY Gen 13 sketch cover. I sold it because I was selling everything else along with it. Shoulda kept that one...

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scooter99

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My biggest regret was not buying a bunch of pre-Robin Tecs in 1980 from Hal Verb when he had a booth a small, local convention. I was only a kid and most of us dumb kids only had New X-men books in our focus.

 

Still pains me to think of all those books. :boo:

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Crimebuster

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When I was in high school, I allowed a dealer to rip me off. I mean, I was a kid, so he should have known better and not been a rip off artist. But I also knew better, it's just that as a teenager, I didn't have the self-control yet to turn down the deal even though I knew it was unfair. I just HAD TO HAVE the thing he was trading me and got completely fleeced as a result.

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Just reflecting back on all of those girls I probably should have banged in high school....oh...wait....uhhhh

 

I'm too young to be like "Should have kept my AF15 that I got off the shelf!" Even too young for all these guys ITT saying they should have kept their TMNTs. Right now, it's probably not getting a Francavilla sketch at Megacon last year, since I have no idea if i'll ever see him again. That and some guy had a GL#1 (SA) for like $250 (although the price probably gets lower every time I reflect on it) on here...really messed up not getting that. Oh and I JUST sold my copy of Daredevil #1, so right now I'm dealing with seller's remorse and hoping everything pans out through ebay.

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Comic related, selling my higher grade x-men 94 to complete a run of a title I no longer read or care about.

 

non-comic related selling my 68 Barracuda /sigh I miss that car, it was the first one I ever built

 

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1) I sold two nice copies of Dime Press #4 that I wanted to slab but was too lazy. Guy who bought them got them graded and e-mailed the results (9.4 & 9.6). I got $200 for the pair. He sold them for $3500.

 

2) Passed on 5 copies of Ultimate Spider-Man 1 (white variant cover) for $10 a piece.

 

3) Overlooked a full long box of (overstock) Watchmen comics. There had to be 25 copies of each number, all (or most) in high grade (uncirculated). And this was 5 months before the movie came out.

 

4) Not holding on to my Walking Dead CGC 9.8 for one more year.

 

WOW! That was quite cathartic.

 

 

Meck

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