What would be your Biggest regret(s) with your Star Wars collecting habit.

Is it opening something sealed and you regretting it after?

or missing on a sale that you should have bought?

Is it selling something only to find out its worth a gazillion dollars shortly later?



For me it is not purchasing the toys when i had the chance. I had the chance to buy the ESB line and ROTJ toys in the mid 80's but never did. I could have spent my comic money on those. Biggest star wars regret in my life so far...

cheers!

I would have to say my biggest regret was in the early 90's I seen a potf luke stormtrooper plus most of the rest at a local collecting store the whole lot about 8 figures in great shape on the cards for around $500 give or take, now to me in the 90's that was really not a lot of money I was single with more money then brains and could have bought it all but for some reason I never did now I would be lucky to get one of them that I didn't have to save for a few months for.

No real regrets for me, if i had to pic something id say leaving it till i was about 30 to get into collecting, but better late than never.
Another is not getting into boots 5 years ago, ive never enjoyed my collecting so much.
Oh, and not buying a $2 model trem obi wan years ago when i had it in my hand out of a $2 bin at a fair, i thought it was some dodgy backyard job lol:I am stupid: 

AussieFortuna wrote:

Oh, and not buying a $2 model trem obi wan years ago when i had it in my hand out of a $2 bin at a fair, i thought it was some dodgy backyard job lol:I am stupid: 

WOW!! That sucks mate. We live and learn though. Collecting is a rewardable learning excperience in the long run in my experience.

One thing that comes to mind for me from memory is when i collected moc i scored a rebel commander (double stem bubble i think)
on palitoy/gm card with no logo. It was pretty cheap, maybe under £25 or so......this was when i assumed that all bubble seals had
the waffle pattern as i had been lead to believe on my early knowlegde etc. Now, this one had a smooth seal which as i found out
later was normal for this and other certain cardbacks. I asked the seller about it and he said it was from a friend who worked at the coalville
leicester palitoy factory etc and couldn't have been resealed (which is what i thought at the time). The seller was perfectly okay about
my concerns and gave me a refund etc.........i wish i could buy it back now at that price   

When i first started collecting i sold many of my childhood weapons with average figures id bought. Many of them trooper and fett blasters which i due to the figures didnt get a good return. Also not realising id need to buy them back at full price further down the line to go in my collection.

Now I don't know how accurate this memory is as its close to thirty years old, and the regret mainly comes from hindsight. But a few years after they stopped stocking the kenner SW line in the shops I would still pick up items from an antique/bric a brac shop that had access to a warehouse clearance. they stocked a lot of of the early 12 back and 20 back mocs. Every now and again I would take my pocket money along to the shop and pic up a new moc. Now of course I was a kid and the figure was ripped from the card before I even got home, so I no longer have any mocs, just a couple of beat up cardbacks and discoloured childhood beaters. But i'm pretty sure that on one occasion I remeber picking up a couple of Jawa mocs and comparing them, one was a regular cloth cape, the other a vc. I remeber putting the vc back and choosing the cloth cape because it looked more authentic to the film, and I thought the vc looked cheap . The worst thing about it though is that every moc I bought was a Palitoy, so its possible the vc was a Palitoy also!!!   Incedently this is also where i bought my palitoy death Star Playset.

My biggest regret was selling my Luke with double extending saber about 12 years ago when I sold a really nice set to friend of mine. I did get that saber back a few years ago only leading to my new regret. When I was showing it off to someone last year I broke the inner piece. It just wasn't meant to be.

Growing up in Australia as a kid in the 80's I got into star wars figures late in the line. So my biggest regret is in 1986, walking into ToyWorld day after day only to be confronted with a bargain bin packed full of those stupid YakFace POTF carded figures for 99c.

I would rummage around beneath them for a stormtrooper or some kind of Luke but nothing. I would walk out empty handed each time.

rattlesnaketoys wrote:

My biggest regret was selling my Luke with double extending saber about 12 years ago when I sold a really nice set to friend of mine. I did get that saber back a few years ago only leading to my new regret. When I was showing it off to someone last year I broke the inner piece. It just wasn't meant to be.

just 3 lines, but what a sad story..