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Just a general question-- what is the largest amount of money you have lost selling a card? I sold a McDavid Young Guns Exclusives BGS 9.5 for only 12K. Kicking myself big time. Regret it every day.
 
Sold a raw Kucherov High Gloss Young Gun to someone on here years ago for $150 USD. Biggest loss for sure, but at the time, it wasn't a bad price and I was happy with the deal.

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Two, count them, two 2012-13 Fleer Retro PMG Emeralds #/10 of Jaromir Jagr. Sold them for $100 each around 2014-ish which at the time was a lovely going rate seeing as Fleer Retro was a clearance product that nobody wanted at the time (my have the times changed). The last two of those Jagr cards to appear that I have seen, however, were happily in the $3000+ sale range. Ouch.

2012-13 Fleer Retro Essential Credentials low numbered cards of Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin (I think both were out of 42) for about $80 each (again, going rate at the time) which I have both seen happily fetch over $1000 each ever since.

But then for every potential loss like that, I think of every Magnus Paajarvi or Nail Yakupov or Carter Hart or Jake Virtanen card I moved for $300-$400 when now they are $5-$10 for the same ones. The universe balances itself out lol
 
IrbeFan4Life said:
Two, count them, two 2012-13 Fleer Retro PMG Emeralds #/10 of Jaromir Jagr. Sold them for $100 each around 2014-ish which at the time was a lovely going rate seeing as Fleer Retro was a clearance product that nobody wanted at the time (my have the times changed). The last two of those Jagr cards to appear that I have seen, however, were happily in the $3000+ sale range. Ouch.

2012-13 Fleer Retro Essential Credentials low numbered cards of Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin (I think both were out of 42) for about $80 each (again, going rate at the time) which I have both seen happily fetch over $1000 each ever since.

But then for every potential loss like that, I think of every Magnus Paajarvi or Nail Yakupov or Carter Hart or Jake Virtanen card I moved for $300-$400 when now they are $5-$10 for the same ones. The universe balances itself out lol
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Yep! For sure... I still get excited remembering auctioning off a Jan Hlavac 01/02 BAP Signature Series silver autograph for $212 USD... I bought it for $1 CDN as everyone thought it was a common. Including me!
 
I sold 5 Crosby Cup RPA's and Three Ovie's all for bewteen $5K and $15K. Probably left a quarter million on the bone.
 
Selling a MacKinnon FWA for $75 USD simply because I was tired of having it in my traders. That was market value at the time, but oof.
 
I sold a 2011 Panini Dominion Crosby Shield Auto 1/1 for $15k cash and trade. It was $5k cash and three cards:

2005 Crosby Cup Limited Logos RC Auto Patch
2005 Gretzky Cup All Star Patch Auto
2005 UD Ultimate Jordan LeBron Dual Auto Patch

I'm sure someone can enlighten me to the riches I gave up. Great deal at the time, but Lord in heaven help me today.
 
I think I've said this story before, but sold a Rantanen young guns high gloss that I 'pulled' in a break for about $500 back when the set first came out.

I remember also about 8-9 years ago or so walking the floor of the expo wanting to make a trade for my Leon Draisaitl future watch auto. I ended up trading it for some stuff that I liked, but the trade value was about $250.
I specifically remember that dealer, as well as the majority of the others on the floor, kept telling me that nobody really wanted the Draisaitl FWA, but if I had a Pastrnak it would be a different story. I'll never forget that expo!
 
johnse27 said:
I sold a Connor McDavid Young Guns PSA 9.5 for $199.99. Now going for well over $1000
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I remember buying four BGS 9.5 McDavid Young Guns on COMC for $175. Made out well on those. Ya win some ya lose some.
 
Traded/sold a whole bunch of Crosby and Ovy RCs and autos and stuff like Gretzky, Lemieux, Orr, Howe, Roy multi player hard signed autos. Don't regret any of it one bit though; i would have never landed some of the biggest Lundqvist cards for the PC otherwise.

On the opposite side, I also collected late 90s rare goodies like the SPx Finite Spectrums and Totally Certified Mirror Platinums /25 and /30 for dirt cheap when some of the Mirror Platinum base commons now sell for $200-300 a piece on the low end and stars going $1200-2200 and Gretzky going for $7500+. Still holding 50+ of the 120 or 130 in the set even now.
 
Not a sale, but a trade.

Way back when I first started online trading, I sold a bunch of rather rare game used (Roy specifically) for a ton of base I "needed" to complete some older sets. Whoops.
 
Sold a McDavid showcase RPA (3-color) for $375 in 2017. Good price back then, but during 2020-21 years, the same ungraded card was worth $2500, about $1200 on average now. Graded a 9 would place it $5k-15k range.

Traded a 99-00 Gretzky SOTT ($200 at the time), 99-00 Jagr BAP stick ($80 at the time), and 95-96 Lindros Check-it ($50 at the time), for about $150 value in trade.

Traded a raw McKinnon YG, Orr SPGU /50 auto, Crosby “87” SPGU /87 auto & Landeskog/RNH SPGU dual auto /25 for a few “hit” items that I wanted and $150 cash. Good trade back in the day before McKinnon became the player he has become, a few years into his career when he, Landeskog & Duchene were the team’s future.

I have been very fortunate, good pulls and them gaining plenty of value and haven’t really traded or sold too many, but these were my big ones that I did part with.
 

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