[Gort]

We’ve touched on this before, but I don’t think we dedicated a thread to it. So ...

Have you ever sold one of your models, only to feel horrible about it later? Maybe when the old “I’ve gotta clean out my closet” bug bit you hard on the buns, and you thought Oh, what the heck? Or perhaps you needed more cash to purchase that new Corgi just hitting the shelves?

And on reflection, it was like having thrown your baby to the wolves, and you couldn't forgive yourself for such flapdoodle?

I have ...

After having sold my entire Matchbox collection over a year ago, and after reading several members’ rhapsodic remarks on these primo models, I’m thinking I made the biggest, most colossal mistake of all time!

I also sold a Corgi “Sugar” Lancaster. And now I’m heartsick.

Anyway, if you’ve shoved your beloved out the door and suffered the pangs of hell for it later, tell us about it!

[jim]

Parting is such sweet sorrow, so I never part with anything, except all my money buying diecast.

[STARMAN 352ND]

Gort....Your not making this any easier on us by saying that...
I just sold my BBMF set and i feel bad already..
So i know how ya feel buddy...
JP

[PappyB]

I sold the first diecast vehicle I ever bought -- a CDC armour collection panther (3161) -- and regretted it immediately (I did get $100 for it -- and I re-bought it last year for $20 on ebay , and I just sold it... again... good thing I now have a dupe!)

And I sold a G For George Lanc, which I kind of regret a little bit -- but I do know it found a great home and I do get to visit it occasionally

And I just sold my Flying Mule Galland, which I hopefully won't regret...

I've been close to selling my Minichamps R1 Panther, and Dragon Wittman first release Tiger, but I figure I'll regret it so I haven't... yet...

[landrocket]

The nuerotic side of me regrets selling the Rhodesia Lanc recently, but I do have every other lanc ever produced so the rational side of me (the much much smaller side) gets pissed off every time I think about it since really, I should be selling a lot more.

[Aircrafty]

Originally Posted by landrocket

The nuerotic side of me regrets selling the Rhodesia Lanc recently, but I do have every other lanc ever produced so the rational side of me (the much much smaller side) gets pissed off every time I think about it since really, I should be selling a lot more.

Yes you should be selling more, for example your S - Sugar to me

[MoMo]

I collect just about everything that I have an interest in : tanks, planes, Corgis, Dinkey Toys, lead soldiers, stamps, Victorian and Edwardian chromolithic cards, cigarette cards, Victoriana, antiques, etc.

I have sold very little, so have suffered little. Anything which I have sold was a dupe or surplus item which represented a direction in which I did not wish to go!

My question, which is a slight turning of the thread, is this: what were you offered, but declined to buy at the time and so caused you to kick your own ass for ever more!

I can recount several deals which I was offered at antique and collectors' Fairs and which I declined.

e.g. a box of a hundred Brittains soldiers for £60 ( I had no interest in them at taht time ...it happened 15 years ago...I hate to think what they are worth today, notwithstanding the pleasure I would have got in displaying them )

e.g. about 240 Del Prado Napoleonic figures which I crapped out of the bidding for at an auction. They went for about £100. I was too distracted by stamps at the time!

e.g. about a hundred incredibly rare football cards for £60. I had just bought a large lot of Corgi Cars for hundreds and was feeling the pinch. These cards are worth thousands today!

e.g. a scratch-built model of a Churchill Tank in metal, about 1.30 scale, which was going at a fair for £45! I was cleaned out and had left my cheque book at home.
Next fair, I discovered the guy had sold it to someone I know...and, Boy, was he crowing! The whole thing turned out to have been an engineer's model which had been made of copper and steel sheet-metal and turned brass. It had obviously been turned out as an apprentice piece. Even the tracks were stamped out and filed to scale! Was I green!!!!

e.g. three Dragon 60001s which were in a sale for £ 6.50 each. I had two, why did I need more?

e.g. the list goes on...but I'll save it for now!


Be honest! What did you pass on?

[Shawn 507]

Diecast planes no, firearms yes. I'd really like to get the firearms I've sold over the years.
- Shawn

[PappyB]

Well, I wish I'd picked up a few of those Corgi Memphis Belles (1:72) I saw at my my local TM store a year or so ago for $29 each

[MoMo]

Well, I wish I'd picked up a few of those Corgi Memphis Belles (1:72) I saw at my my local TM store a year or so ago for $29 each

Wow! We never see anything like that here, PappyB. The best I've seen and bought were some " Aviation Archive" items at half price and a good few Dragon 1.72 Warbirds at $12 each. But, I've never seen anything as good as a Belle 1.72 at $29. I'm surprised that you didn't buy the lot to trade them!

MoMo