My biggest regret was learning that just because a book is listed as a key in Key Collector doesn’t mean you should buy it. A few years ago I had just downloaded the Key Collector app and I went to my LCS and was flipping through the back issue bins and noticed a full run of the 90s Robin miniseries. I checked Key Collector and it said issue #2 was a key, so I got excited and bought it for $5.00 without thinking about it. After I got home I quickly realized that I had no interest in the book and after looking at some recent sales data I realized that I’d be lucky to get a dollar for it if I sold it. Regardless, I listed on my eBay store and while I have sold many books since then, that book is the only one to never sell two years later. I know that this isn’t a large mistake financially and I only lost $5 but it taught me a lesson that would have cost me much more if I had learned it later.
@shytweedabone2663
Жыл бұрын
I think people need to hear things like this. I know I do.
@gorgeousgeorge5173
Жыл бұрын
The statues look like a huge waste of money, but at least as a KZitemr they add to your set design.
@kahnlives
Жыл бұрын
Once again this just proves the speculation market is a curse to collectors. If I buy an expensive comic it’s to add to my PC and not flip. If it increases great, if it decreases I don’t care, it’s in my collection because I want it, period!
@billykennedy7973
Жыл бұрын
Last year I got back into the comic collecting scene again. My biggest regret is that I didn’t quit a month later than I did. Pulling my collection out and going back through them I find that New Mutants 97 is the last issue I have. C’est La Vie
@danielmitchel31310
Жыл бұрын
I first really got into collecting / reading comics in 2014 with the reboot of ASM after Superior Spider-Man ended. In 2015, I sold my ASM #4 (1st Silk) 1:10 Incentive & Edge Of Spider-Verse #2 (1st Spider-Gwen)1st Print for $60 total. At the time, they were going for $50 each. They were both NM+ high grade candidates. They'll cost me at least $1500 to get them back now. Luckily, I kept the A Cover of ASM #4. It was one of the first books I got Graded in 2020 and it got a 9.8! 💯 😅 I still wish I had the other 2 though!
@monsterphile
Жыл бұрын
Most of my regret is because of selling so many great comics on Ebay to try to pay off bills. When I collected, I truly was a mint hunter. I collected what I like and read everything, but tried to find the perfect copies and treated the comics like they were babies. I bought Hulk 181 for $35, when that was the Overstreet value. I eventually sold it for $500. This was way before grading and slabbing ever was even a thing. If I had held onto that comic and later sent to CGC, it would easily gotten a 9.8. There were so many books that I passed on because they showed some wear. Wish I still had my whole collection.
@pillar81
Жыл бұрын
Much like you Hulk 181, I had a similar experience with more modern Keys. I sold my full runs of NYX and Ultimate Fallout for pretty much cover price.
@chrismaloy
Жыл бұрын
I think my biggest regret has been buying auctions while drinking. I don't do that anymore, but I usually have to offload many of my purchases immediately after buying them for a big loss with shipping. My other regret / mistake is buying stuff I don't love. It is always a mistake to own something I don't enjoy.
@theohoekstra1244
7 ай бұрын
Alcohol and Ebay or Amazon is a bad mix...I feel your pain. I've wasted so much money "bored shopping" while drinking.
@RikMorrison
Жыл бұрын
I am also in the camp of not buying just for speculation. I prefer to buy what you like and if it coincides with specs then it is all good. Some people specs work for them but I prefer collecting and not just flip books.
@kahnlives
Жыл бұрын
Same here👍
@tikertiker2
Жыл бұрын
My biggest regret is first getting into Whatnot, and spending hundreds picking up stupid variants that will never amount to anything. Not doing that again 😅
@jadecasssie
Жыл бұрын
My biggest regret is downloading Whatnot 😂😅 (jk but I have to cut myself off sometimes)
@DavidClark-vu3dw
Жыл бұрын
The problem is people let their "fandom" of the person you're subscribed to override your spending budget. I see so many people pay more than gpa analysis on whatnot where they easily could've bought off eBay for cheaper.
@ivangotyokes
Жыл бұрын
I have way too many worthless variants
@jmpw005
Жыл бұрын
I used to think that having read an issue to death that later became a key was a big L. My fiance' had to remind me how much I had to have enjoyed them to have read them to death.
@spyderpaul314
Жыл бұрын
FOMO got me on Something is Killing the Children. As the series was ending (or so we were told) I paid over $200 for a raw copy of the Jenny Frisson #1. Now a graded 9.8 is well under $150.
@ivangotyokes
Жыл бұрын
I bought every issue from #5 up of SIKTC and then some after missing out on #1....ROFL
@gregoryfinney6426
Жыл бұрын
Biggest regret was a yard sale con. I had to work on a Saturday while my wife was having a garage sale. I had extras staged in the garage NOT for sale. My wife calls me and said that an insistent bully wanted some of those. She put him in the phone. I said I would be home in a few hours and for him to come back. He then hung up. She called back and said that she sold the books and has the money. I said “ WHAT!!!???”. The guy said that I said go ahead and buy some items. Most of the items were purchased 20-25 years ago and had the original prices on them. That’s what my wife charged. I remember my extra Star Wars 1, my extra Captain America 100 and numerous Xmen were missing when I got home. But I had $30! Always follow up with the wife and tell here what’s going on so a con man won’t jump ahead and take advantage.
@jesselynch1928
Жыл бұрын
Omg that’s so sad. I had mini episodes of that but never that bad. There are some real jerks out there
@eblanco7605
Жыл бұрын
Ouch. Hopefully karma pays him back hard.
@sefu37
Жыл бұрын
I sold my avengers 1 1.8 My asm 129 8.0 My daredevil 1 3.0 For $3k riiiiight before covid. Ugh. Could've made 4x that. Ugh.
@green_lightning_comics447
Жыл бұрын
Great video James. A nice follow up would be your top 10 best comic decisions. Keep up the great work!
@Lithograph_Comics
Жыл бұрын
Having been into reading and collecting comics for 30+ years, I’ve definitely spent some money I might as well have just struck a match to. I’m sure we all have or at least we all WILL if you’re in this hobby long enough. Instead of mentioning specific misses I’ve had (mostly regarding spec during the 2021 FOMO boom), I’ll simply say this: Trust your gut and your own experience, which is where I messed up. I had started trusting spec channels and influencers more than I trusted myself, which led to FOMO on top of FOMO. I’d spent 30 years collecting what I liked and done very well in regards to investing until that 1-2 year period where a lot of what I bought for spec/FOMO purposes fell flat. I still watch the spec channels daily to keep up with news, but now I view them for entertainment purposes only and not investment advice. 2021 was a brutal year for a lot of us buyers, but hopefully it was some hard lessons learned.
@comic-artist2122
Жыл бұрын
"Bless her black hearth"😂 that one got me!
@mathewkamioka465
Жыл бұрын
My pokemon cards. Back in college around 2001 I bought really expensive charizard cards in bullet proof glass and some mew cards that came out when the pokemon movie came out. I also had a complete set of first edition pokemon cards that were all nicely put away in a binder. After my first gf cheated and left me she took all my pokemon cards too and would not let me get them back. I try not to think of all that money I lost. Because of that experience to this day I do not like pokemon.
@CheapComicCollector
Жыл бұрын
Hmmm. Can't say I really have any regrets over particular purchases but I don't buy to resell or slab. there have been times when I look around my house at all my collectibles and think wow, i wonder how much i spent on all this stuff when I could have put it towards paying off the house. But now I just paid off the house so nope, no more regrets!
@xxs9752
Жыл бұрын
Man, do you want to know how many people have thrown money in the trash? Add up 90% of those who bought Manga + 100% of those who bought FunkoPOP.
@charliedogg7683
Жыл бұрын
When bidding on some books on Ebay I've let it become personal - bidding more and more just to beat the other guy who I don't know and will very likely never meet. The high of winning lasted only seconds, until I realised that there were other copies of the same comic for 25% of what I paid, and in better condition. Lesson: bid with your head and never with your heart. James, the fact that you can admit to these past mistakes means that you've moved past them.
@MintHunterComics
Жыл бұрын
Good advice Charlie!
@vynilrob9719
Жыл бұрын
The complete run of Maximum Carnage
@DAN_SPL
Жыл бұрын
Great stories, one of my worst buys was BRZRKR 1 3rd print in 9.8. I refused to loose a bidding war and took that book to all times highs of $200 (and with a recent sale of $40 F$%^K). I keep that book out now as a reminder to check GPA before I bid and never to do that again. Months later I found a raw in back bins for 2$ and I bought that to also remind myself that you can find digging most books you want!
@TheSameoldjoe
Жыл бұрын
Everybody overpays for some things sometimes. The 2008 real estate debacle is a prime example of how tragic it could be. My biggest mistake was trusting people who stole from me. So many of my early Avengers and Fantastic Four are MIA. When I can replace any of those books, it gives me a good feeling. I try not to dwell on the past and concentrate on the present. If I were to give advice to my fellow hobbyist, it would be to avoid mystery boxes, exclusives, expensive variant covers, signed books, and the hot books of the week. Also, common sense is a valuable tool when you make purchases. Use it! IMO! Thank you, sir.
@matthewcettei3655
Жыл бұрын
I bought 40 copies of xforce 1, and I’ve been carting them around the country ever since. $40 was a lot for high school me.
@LeadPaint1
Жыл бұрын
Well......at least the failures provided some sweet KZitem content.....
@PapasDino
Жыл бұрын
Biggest for me was in the mid-60's loaning my stack of Marvel comics to a cousin in the Air Force...never saw that Avengers #1 again...sigh, good thing I have two copies now! Thanks for sharing the downside, how about your Top Ten Successes?
@loganplaysvideogame
Жыл бұрын
Man I went through a stupid funko pop phase; like I was buying everything even stuff I had never seen 😂. However it ended up being a good investment somehow and I made almost a double up on money on the whole collection hahaha
@thomasdickson375
Жыл бұрын
starting line up figures. post-unity valiant nuff said. on the other hand, a lot of the books that have been sitting around for 30+ years are still high grade and provide an opportunity to recover some of my $$. of course, economists refer to these $ as "sunk costs" and tell us not to worry about it. easier said than done.
@johngaravaglia6126
Жыл бұрын
I’m actually torn between jumping on the FOMO boat when I purchased a handful of Batman: Damned #1 (first appearance of Bat-a-Wang), and the Nintendo Virtual Boy. The market was oversaturated with the Batman book on getting stupid ridiculous prices. To this da , they’re still sitting. And the NVB…I think AVGN got that covered in one of his videos.
@daandekeyser6379
Жыл бұрын
I live in Europe and the availability and market demand is a lot less than compared to America. Even though it will take years to eventually find a copy, somehow it pops up somewhere. So when I miss out on an issue or series, I remind myself of this fact and it has saved me a ton of money!
@MintHunterComics
Жыл бұрын
I feel bad for my European friends - it seems so much harder to get suff...
@superfunforce8052
2 ай бұрын
Ive been collecting the same for 40 years. Only thing that slightly changed is that ive learned modern comics are not so good lol. I also never collected for money, just get a few slabs or keys every now and then to keep. 💯🙌🏻
@soldierboy2350
Жыл бұрын
I had 50 copies all in mint condition at one time of UF4 when it first came out. got them in a bulk deal with a bunch of other issues. I despised the fact that i thought they were basically trying to replace my man Peter Parker and i thought everyone else would feel the same way as i did and the character would flop hard and be gone in a year. Sold every copy for about $10 just to get rid of them and well.... Guess the joke was on me cause we all know how that went 🤦
@Mat_268
Жыл бұрын
Mine was the opposite. I bought the Spider-Man 2099 #1 issues and it is still not worth much.
@funkified-
Жыл бұрын
when i got back into comics in early 22', I fomo bought copy 1st Jane Foster Thor in a 9.8. While I didnt pay the top end of that it was still $300. It promptly took a nose dive to $100 within months. Luckily it was only 1 copy, as I almost bought into multiples and the subsequent 2nd, 3rd and 4th prints! Also SHE-HULK #1 Newsstand in a 9.8, paid the top end on that one but saw the writing on the wall after the 1st episode aired and got out of it with a minimal loss. Moral of the story, dont FOMO buy and dont buy into the hype. Now I stick to solid proven keys and RAW's that I clean/press/submit myself.
@carymoshman1180
Жыл бұрын
Purchased a jukebox once. Worst purchase ever. All those things know how to do is break. Wound up giving it away.
@RudeMekanicals
Жыл бұрын
Maybe 5 or 6 times FOMO unfotunately hit on runs I was trying to complete and I ended up paying over FMV just so I could read a full story. Fortunately, I never spent more than 75$ on an overpriced comic. Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you...
@versewonderstrikes5353
Жыл бұрын
6:52 That’s how I discovered your channel. It wasn’t all bad.
@nuctech99m
Жыл бұрын
I have the Lady Death velvet swimsuit issue i paid $50.00 in 1995 if i could get $20.00 id be lucky at that time it definitely was a waste of my hard earned cash could have bought a bunch of comics
@OpenBuildRepeat
Жыл бұрын
Hmmm ... i regret this for now... I spent alot on comic book press and clean equipment. This was 6 months ago. I have yet to practice on a comic yet. Regret for now because of my laziness but I know it will be worth it.
@papasplaceofultimatecoolness
Жыл бұрын
The thing I regret buying most of all is a BMW. The thing was a total money pit. Never again.
@SuperNmolnar
Жыл бұрын
My Top Failure was Selling my ASM 300 for a $100.00 back in 2008. Grrr!
@jesselaidlaw395
Жыл бұрын
not comic book related, but i sold my game stop stock just weeks before the BOOM!
@chuckhiggins7666
Жыл бұрын
Trying to collect complete runs of titles like Fantastic Four...etc
@LoneWolf-ky7cq
Жыл бұрын
Hundreds of Funko POP. I still can't get rid of most of them...
@calebleland8390
Жыл бұрын
Back before I had kids, I bought a guitar amp from a music catalog. The model I wanted was no longer in production, and the only one they had was a returned model. This should have been an automatic red flag, but even though they offered me an amp that was a little better and pricier, I wanted this amp. Of course, I didn't have this thing even a month and it started to act up. First a hum that wouldn't go away, then some crackling, and finally no music whatsoever would come out of it. By this point I couldn't return it, and I was stuck with a piece of equipment that I couldn't use. I was so pissed off at myself for not getting the other amp, but hubris wouldn't allow me to admit that I was wrong. Lesson learned. My other big regret was selling all of my KISS vinyl to a friend of mine. My fiance (now wife) and I had just dropped out of college, moved in together, and I really needed money. I sold my KISS records to my friend for $5 each. I didn't have a turntable and they were just taking up room in our small apartment. I still kick myself for that faux pas
@reprintranch
Жыл бұрын
From one KISS fan to another - “You wanted regrets, and you got regrets! The hottest band in the land, KIIIIIIISSSSSSSSS!!!!”
@calebleland8390
Жыл бұрын
@@reprintranch that joke is too good. You have won the Internet.
@DavidClark-vu3dw
Жыл бұрын
Lick it up!
@BrokeBoyComics
Жыл бұрын
I’ve been a collector pretty much my whole life. I’ve gone through so many phases that if I had kept everything that I have ever collected, I’d be considered a hoarder. So in turn whenever I stopped collecting something after a few years, I basically was just throwing money out. I’m hoping that I stop that trend and actually stick to collecting one or a few things and that’s it. But we’ll see because the trend still continues, I think it’s just the way I’m wired lol.
@dansxmencomics
Жыл бұрын
I fell you there 🥲
@corso_kid
Жыл бұрын
Multiple copies of Ravage 2099 9.8’s.. I figured it was the last Stan lee created character so it’s gonna be big!!!!! Wow!! I had to dump it at a huge loss…. It’s so embarrassing
@johnscott3233
Жыл бұрын
I regret selling my comic collection. Yes there were valuable keys, but mostly hurts because I would have loved to have passed the good stories along for my kids to read and enjoy.
@1-18JayJoes
Жыл бұрын
Keeping my 70s & 80s comic collection in a ground floor storage unit. Real convenient until it flooded. Total loss.
@balloneyblows
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for keeping it real with the statues. I always want so many but they're expensive and big. Also I've changed from buying floppies to just getting omni's or collected editions. Its easier to read and store and is cheaper depending on the book.
@ProfessorEchoMedia
Жыл бұрын
I’ll go you one even better: I limit my comics, both individual copies and collections, to Kindle so I can save space for my massive movie on disc collection. It also saves me a ton of money when getting Marvel Masterworks for 99 cents each.
@mart767comics
Жыл бұрын
Appreciate your honesty. Keep up the great work!
@MintHunterComics
Жыл бұрын
My pleasure!
@jeffstanley6013
Жыл бұрын
Biggest regret/mistake was not something I bought, but something I didn't buy. I've been collecting comics for decades, but I stopped buying new books back in the '90's. At the time, I was big into the Batman titles but was spending too much money on my weekly pull list. So I made the conscious decision not to buy the new Batman issue that week when I saw it. Yeah, it was Batman Adventures 12. 😫😫
@investindaily8003
Жыл бұрын
Let me get that Speck Playa. I’ve only got one slabbed comic and have been thinking on sending some of my keys in to get graded. Like Wolverine 1 Shehulk newsstand one and ASM 51. My Green Lantern 85-86 are low grade. They were my first buys when I got back in the comic game back in Sept. help a homie out
@leeniren3706
Жыл бұрын
My biggest comic book failure was when I first decided to get books slabed looked online and found a comic book, grading company, Wait for it…… PGX. I sent them my invaders 1. My wolverine 1 my Incredible Hulk 180 and 181 and was thrilled until I get the books back and start realizing that I may have made a mistake. I soon learned that PGX was not a company that people used and resubmit it the books to CGC. When the books came back, I was horrified to see an other than blue label. The invaders, and the two Incredible Hulk books with all missing the value stamp. This is when I learned that not only did I learn that PGX completely screwed up and missed that, but that the person I bought the book from took advantage of a novice comic book collector. By far my biggest mistake with collecting Comics.
@MintHunterComics
Жыл бұрын
Than darn marvel value stamp!!!
@scottsimpson4786
Жыл бұрын
This is one of the funniest videos ever !!!😂😂
@DemzWon1
Жыл бұрын
Was going to send out cbcs to crossover to cgc but not now 😂
@joeythestuntmaster6210
Жыл бұрын
My biggest regret was sending my money blindly to Bad Idea in an effort to get one of those “invisible” comics. I wound up with the constellation prize of the “Object”, which is extremely high priced toy that is just collecting dust inside its box. I had a chance to cancel my order, but FOMO got the best of me and my wife refuses to let me forget.
@EveryDayAStoryCollects
Жыл бұрын
Sold my 9.6 graded Hulk #181 in 2016 for $6k. Replaced with a 9.4 in 2020 but still weep on that one.
@MintHunterComics
Жыл бұрын
Oh no!!!!
@snizzlepop4641
Жыл бұрын
Great video!!! I can empathize with more than a few of these. I am 50/50 on Spec picks over the years. Probably in the RED to be honest. 2021-2022 I sent too many damn modern spec books to CGC. I have bins actually labeled FOMO: DO NOT OPEN
@GwenonGirl626
Жыл бұрын
Shout out to your wife for the good idea for the video! My biggest regret is thinking it was financially feasible to start collecting entire series of books instead of just the keys or covers I liked. That got old, expensive, and bulky REAL QUICK 😂
@brianking8080
Жыл бұрын
As a new comic collector I bought any books with characters I found cool. I liked the John JSA, so I picked up bronze, silver, and gold TBPs and floppies with the JSA and solo series. Turns out I just like modern comics and all those old school books were a waste of my money. Cant even get through then without falling asleep. (Some of the covers are cool tho, so it's not all bad).
@Fgarcia-tz3eg
Жыл бұрын
Lol glad to see I'm not the only funko dummy😅 great episode 🤣
@jamespomicter1147
Жыл бұрын
So......back in Feb. 2021....since I am a HUGE Vision Fan.....I sprung $975 on West Coast Avengers #45.....first appearance of the White Vision.....and with the Wanda Vision show providing the FOMO on the book as it was sky-rocketing. That book has dropped out of the spotlight and the $$$ loss hurts!!! And to top it all off....I recently found that I already had a Super Crispy newsstand of the same book! Ouch!!!
@MintHunterComics
Жыл бұрын
NOOOOOO! I think I just sold a 9.8 for $300! Next One I've got you can have it for that price - sorry you got taken to the bank on that!
@timothywong4318
Жыл бұрын
Your poor bank account!
@jeffkib134
Жыл бұрын
It’s always a disaster when I watch KZitem videos about the hot books of the week at 1am. I need someone to restrict my eBay access after midnight lol. Great video!
@MintHunterComics
Жыл бұрын
Hahahahaha
@anthonymacrae2229
Жыл бұрын
Using only long boxes for storage. Was fine when it was only 20 or so. But now it's up over 80 and it is not an easy moving day. Slowly converting to all short boxes. Always tell people to avoid the long boxes now.
@PunguinYoga
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the tip.
@Sinsightful
Жыл бұрын
We appreciate the honesty! And Speculation is so damn hard!!!
@JC-dg6vo
Жыл бұрын
I laughed thru the video; Too funny. Great show.
@nelsonrodriguez5451
Жыл бұрын
My greatest regret are the books I didn't buy. Amazing Fantasy 15 CGC 3.0 for $3K and passed. This was 2004 but it hurts today.
@geekimusprime
Жыл бұрын
Honestly, any books bought during 2020-2022 are “duds.” Even the silver age keys I bought aren’t worth as much now, but they are PC books.
@LearningandTechnology
Жыл бұрын
I have lived a very stupid life :) There are so many things that I have bought that I should not have. But... what really hurts are the things I never should have sold :) TMNT #1 1st Print, 9.6 at least - sold $1000 Hulk #181 - 9.2 at least - sold $1250 X-Men 94 - CGC 9.0 - sold $900 Giant-Sized X-Men 1 - CGC 9.0 - sold $1000 Those are just a few.... BUT - I did make money on each of them.
@Jmener69
Жыл бұрын
My 1500 funko pop collection , I later sold to my local comic / used bookstore , it did introduce me to comics, while I waited for them to tally my pops I would hit the comic section and get cheap Batman, so one collection for another except comics take up less space lol
@bajablaster1594
Жыл бұрын
I felt you when you started talking about all those Hot Toys, even though I don’t have any I’ve gotten a couple of Mafex and always felt like I could’ve spent that money on comics
@reaperzslicer235
Жыл бұрын
I know I’ve over spent on quite a few books on whatnot shows because they’re were ones I needed to fill runs and such only to weeks or days later find the in a dollar bin
@bigwillcomics9968
Жыл бұрын
I saw a NM 98 for sale and debated getting it because it would take all my money...i passed. A month later the announcement came about the first movie and the book jumped to $500 and im still kicking myself for not spending all my money on it when i passed because at the time IT WAS $20!!!!
@MintHunterComics
Жыл бұрын
Oh MAN! but we're not fortune tellers - how are we to know?
@bigwillcomics9968
Жыл бұрын
@@MintHunterComics I agree but it still stings 😂
@CranesComics
Жыл бұрын
Hope this helps but I just spent 250 bucks on a collection that I thought had a first app of vision and when I got home I realized it was the reprint 😢
@PunguinYoga
Жыл бұрын
My biggest mistake is probably buying books that are inexpensive instead of paying a bit more for books I really love. I started collecting again in April and I can't believe how many books I have I don't care that much about. I'm getting away from that problem and now I'm focusing on what I love. Finally... Best wishes, James. You're one of the best.
@MintHunterComics
Жыл бұрын
Very true - if you can hold your money and save for bigger stuff it can really pay off
@MintHunterComics
Жыл бұрын
YOU WON THE FCBD 1st APP OF VIRUS DUDE!!!
@PunguinYoga
Жыл бұрын
@@MintHunterComics Wow. Thanks! You would not believe how many comic-related prizes I've won since I started collecting again in April. I almost feel guilty about it. Do I need to do anything? Pay postage? Thanks again and best wishes with all you do. Your passion and honesty are inspiring.
@WhiteArtsMagic
Жыл бұрын
I spent 150 ETH on a Bored Ape Yacht Club...
@eblanco7605
Жыл бұрын
My biggest regret was not buying older major keys when i was younger. I always thought, ill get them later when i have some extra cash. Get keys first, then fill out the rest of the run. I did make out well during the housing market crash in 2008. Similar to whats happening now, people were dumping books. I scored several NM copies asm 300 for $20 a pop from one seller.
@MintHunterComics
Жыл бұрын
I think we all feel that!
@drawingwithsamuel8991
Жыл бұрын
I dont regret any buy but I think your a great you tuber and I don't plan on changing my mind
@MintHunterComics
Жыл бұрын
That's so kind - thank you!
@Mat_268
Жыл бұрын
Mine would be buying free comic book day book, the Avengers/XMen/Eternals with the 1st appearance of Bloodline or buying comics back in the 1990s that ended not being worth anything. I remember ordering from a service, I think it was called Mile High Comics. I bought multiple copies of certain issues until the industry collapsed. A few years ago, I brought home a long box from my parents house and it is still sitting there in my office until earlier this year I finally took a peek and looked at the first two issues in the front of the box and that was it. Afraid to dive in deeper. 🤣
@EveryDayAStoryCollects
Жыл бұрын
I bought one of those from James on of his claim sales for good price. Holding for movement on the Blade movie
@MintHunterComics
Жыл бұрын
I hear you on that. Watch out on those FCBDs!
@pabloaiger5875
Жыл бұрын
It is difficult to select one. I think I can say that my worst decision as a collector is to be a completionist... today I just want to complete arcs and first appearances of some group of heroes. that leaves me with tons of comics that take up space and make my girlfriend mad. Some time ago I bought Day of Vengeance 1 online, because it was the first appearance of shadowpack, then I realized that I bought the infinite crisis special... crap
@ssettle
Жыл бұрын
As someone who had been out of comics for 20 years, only for my collection to be offered back to me plus a few thousand more comics right when the comic boom happened, I definitely made some mistakes. The car full we bought wasn’t the mistake. It was buying all this modern spec. Ironheart, Silk, etc etc. Pretty much every single modern key I lost money on. So… I started dumping em all. I let eBay auctions do their thing one at a time and just kept selling, and I’m glad I did, because they dropped even more. I made a sheet and decided I wanted to keep 50 TOTAL comics and may bring that down to 30. That philosophy has worked pretty well for me. Last month I tried selling a bunch of raw comics one at a time. I sold 78. I made enough to buy a ASM 6 graded. And to me that’s the trade off. Have 78 comics that are worth next to nothing each, or a big key that I’ll keep. Inching closer and closer to that goal of 30 keepers and not a single issue more and never again a modern book. The “key” is to not chase that modern garbage. It’s pretty much a no win gamble. So I wittle back down to 30 total and I’m a happier person for it.
@MintHunterComics
Жыл бұрын
The best way is to honestly learn the hobby, which for many people is an extremally time-consuming task! but without it you WILL lose money
@TransformersCollector
Жыл бұрын
Bro you are so funny!!! 😅
@AndrewSunada
Жыл бұрын
I got the cheerleader effect on several collectables with a guy at an antique shop. I paid just under $400 for a bunch of knicknacks and batman paraphanalea. He marked everything up and "gave me a discount"...which was $400. I should have only paid $200 at most for everything and I didn't actually want/need everything I got either. I can still feel it a bit.
@prescottwoolery1749
Жыл бұрын
I viewed some comments, and like a few, I regret letting go of my collection back in the mid 90's before the comic book grading/slabbing era. If professional grading/slabbing was available back then, I would have appreciated my valuable collection back then. I'll tell you why. When I started collecting, I loved visiting the local comic book shop which was the only one near Homestead Air Force Base in 1985, so the only time I would be able to visit was when my parents decided they wanted to purchase something from Cutler Ridge Mall or the Best Buy (brand new at the time). Usually, my allowance was about $10/month, so on one occasion, the owner recently came across a treasure trove of silver age X-Men that he had not been able to personally grade and price out yet, but were sitting on his counter in piles, just right by his cash register. I was 13 at the time, so I had to make a decision on the option the owner gave to me as to what I wanted to do with the $10. He told me I can take a pick of a pile of the silver age X-Men issues for $1 each (most were I would say Good to Fine condition) OR purchase issue #1 (He said was in rough shape, but still intact) for the whole $10. I figured, I would get more bang for the buck for the later issues at $1 a pop! I was happy with my decision at the time, but regretted it less than 10 years later. The next regrettable choice I made was to sell my collection of mostly Marvel collection of Silver/Bronze and Modern age so I could have extra spending money for a big trip overseas! Ugh! That was my big regret, but as for a new age of comic books, perhaps it can be coined the "Slab Age"! Again, I would have appreciated my collection more if I got them profesionally graded before I let it go!
@hockeymike15035
Жыл бұрын
Yeah I’ve definitely made a handful of terrible purchases when it comes to spec books and just other collectibles I really just didn’t need 🤣🤦🏼♂️
@MattMatt77
Жыл бұрын
The hole Tattoo thing. Yeah its best not to do it for many reason i found out
@robertt9342
Жыл бұрын
I personally think tattoos are dumb.
@noreply3717
Жыл бұрын
Hi how are you
@CharlesThomas-vs8ir
Жыл бұрын
My failure is that new Eternal's run that came out before the movie. I just started collecting comics and everyone was talking about the Eternal's and I feel deep into the spec trap.I had all the 1 and 50's and 1 and 25's hidden gems exc. Sent them all to CGC and got 9.6's and now I can't give them away. Smmfh
@chrisojeda7377
Жыл бұрын
My biggest regret was buying Indie books, always thinking about the next Walking Dead nonsense. Thief of Theives, Seven to Eternity, Aftershock comics and other Indie trash that just filled boxes for nothing. Another regret? DONNY CATES THOR. Ufff, I should have just walked away.
@LeonardPace
Жыл бұрын
I regret buying a few mystery boxes with a few CGC slabs a few months ago. I got a zero spark of joy when I held CGC in my hands, it's nothing compared to holding a raw in my hands. That's how I know that I am truly a collector of raw comic books. I still have no idea what to do with three CGCs, crack them open or sell them, or more likely keep them to remind me not to get more of them. 😂 Great video and I do feel your pains.
@johnnydropkicks
Жыл бұрын
Who did you purchase the mystery boxes from?
@LeonardPace
Жыл бұрын
Dynamic Forces, I do not recommend them. They offered Spider-Man themes and I love Spider-Man and want to have the first slab to be a Spider-Man comic book but instead received Venom, Carnage, and Facsimile of Hobgoblin's first appearance. But at least I got bunches of Spider-Man raw comics which pleased me somewhat but not worth the cost I paid for the chance of Slabs. That's my "I should have NEVER spend my money on"
@johnnydropkicks
Жыл бұрын
@@LeonardPace Thank you for replying and for the information. 👍
@LeonardPace
Жыл бұрын
@@johnnydropkicks You're very welcome... 👍
@kahnlives
Жыл бұрын
I agree, raw books just pop better, plus maintenance is a pice of cake if needed. The slabs should be for the crazy insane expensive ones, just my opinion.
@jadecasssie
Жыл бұрын
Not you calling her a stupid b*tch 😂😂😅😅 I died at that part
@vynilrob9719
Жыл бұрын
RIGHT?!
@pulsarstargrave256
7 ай бұрын
We've all met 1 or 2!
@mrobitoman5863
Жыл бұрын
I can't lie, the first one made me chuckle
@funnybookfamily
Жыл бұрын
My biggest failures were actually blue chip keys I bought at the start of last year: Strange Tales #110 and Fantastic Four #48. I bought these both already CGC graded, with a credit card, right before they dropped in value. I then needed the cash, sold them for way less than I paid to buy them, and still have a credit card to pay off. Really, really dumb.
@XxmirrorsscaremexX
Жыл бұрын
Dude...my biggest regret? Funko Pops...I got oh so many. like 2016-2019, all my money went into it. Ontop of all my other hobbies (Music, MtG, Mcfarlane DC)..but Pops are always my biggest buyers remorse.
@DravinClaw
Жыл бұрын
That would be my Funko pop collection. I got most of mine from the Star Wars subscription box and I did pick up a few outside of that my collection isn't that big but 70 pops takes up a lot of room that I had to buy a cabinet to put them all in but that takes up room....And in the last year or so I started legos but this I did keep to a small collection I call it my Imperial build I only have Star Wars Empire builds no huge sets I have 8 Empire builds and 1 Tallneck from Horizon Zero Dawn. As for comics I only collect what I read except for a few I pick up at claim sales as I never had luck with picking something that would make money even when I owned a comic shop in the 90's I have tons of books that were great reads but aren't worth the paper they are printed on.
@charlesjohnson3287
Жыл бұрын
3 major failures in my collecting career. 1. I passed on buying a full run of Star Wars back in 1991. Could have gotten them for around $100.00. 2. I put The Walking Dead #1 back on the shelf at my LCS because I didn’t like zombies and B&W comics. 3. Pre-pandemic I passed on a CGC 8.0 Hulk 181 (value stamp intact) for $3500? Wasn’t in the budget?!? 😂
@rayengstrom1905
Жыл бұрын
Basically every comic I bought from late 2020 to mid 2021 was a mistake. I bought the cheapest Avengers Annual #10 9.8 I could find. I paid $1400, which was actually under FMV, and now I could almost buy 2 9.8s for that price...
@1JackStClair
Жыл бұрын
I think I over-paid for a Spiderman #36. This was the black, blank cover tribute to 9-11. The one I bought is CGC 9.8 yellow label and has a custom sketch of the Twin Towers and NY skyline in silver signed by artist Scott Hanna and bronze signature of Stan Lee. Beautiful book, Stan's signature in bronze really pops, just over-paid, I think.
@Pedro-lg9wz
Жыл бұрын
Lol, those graphic novels are picking dust.... that stupid Bit#%😂. I bought tons of Dungeon and Dragons miniatures, books, campaigns, etc... to play D&D and then all my friends moved and had no one to play with😢, soooooooo I gave them all away $100 upon 100$'s wasted...I've collected video games, original movie posters, sport cards, etc... i guess we can all relate to your story!!😅
@gordonmilne4323
Жыл бұрын
My failures involve brilliant purchases, but terrible resales. I was going through some bad depression at the time and in about 2011 I sold Tales of Suspense 39 for £400. I paid that for it about 5 years prior, but my mind wasn't in a good place. Same happened with Fantastic Four 48, I bought one of the earliest CGC 8.0 of it for £330 and sold it for £250 in 2011. The other incident was I bought a Gem Mint CGC 10.0 of Marvel Knights Spider-Man #1 for £100. In 2011 I sold it on eBay for £100!!! Safe to say the guy I sold it to left me very positive feedback. If I could go back in time, I'd definitely change that. Been there on the speculation path too with Incredible Hulk 34 return of the monster. I paid Wizard guide price for that, only to then find it in bargain bins.
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