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starry_solo said:

Jungle Book & Hercules were still on the racks when I went to go watch Tangled at El Capitan. I kick myself repeatedly for not buying the chair pin (I could have gotten 7 since I went with 3 other people, only one bought that pin), 7 of the BatB "surprise" pin (library), and the Tangled Marquee - at retail!!!

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Things like this make me a little happy that I'm safely on the East coast.

I mostly feel "stupid" for not getting into pins again sooner. I missed releases like the designer sets and some awesome Rapunzel pins and I do feel sad that I missed them at cost. Or at least wasn't around to buy them at the reseller prices they had then. Same for the LE dolls.

But for the amount of regret I feel, that amount is easily repaid in great deals now, and the great people I meet. So I don't really focus on it anymore.

Yes! I feel like i missed out on a lot and now I'm having to pay out more instead of getting the really good pins at their original retail price. I mean I'd probably still have to pay a little more just because i don't live near a park.

weRsiamese said:

Yes!! I'm pretty sure the Beauty And The Beast one was one that was there forever! That one, AIW, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, Cinderella, and Jungle Book were there for months! I remember two of the Tangled ones being on the sale rack-the Pascual one and the silhouette one. I didn't buy them because I didn't like them and figured they weren't good traders because nobody wanted them, same with the BTs, I could kick myself now for not getting them when they were $3 and $4!!!

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This is even painful to read. :cry:

Okay, I'm not trying to sound like the snarky witch here but has no one learned anything? Do you gain anything by reliving in an unchangeable past of pin buying?

So you didn't buy a pin when it was marked down and now it's the next great thing. At the time you did what made the most sense, you avoided having to hoard ugly pins. These pins haven't magically changed their appearance just because suddenly over 500 people have added them to their wants lists. Unless you measure appearance by dollar signs, but then that's whole other issue to be had. Those once marked down bargain pins...they are still ugly, it's just now someone in the proverbial crowd has yelled "fortune" and most everyone wants a part of that glitter.

Pin collecting is about buying/acquiring pins you like, not the rest of the world. If you really like the pin, you buy two in hopes that one day (near or far) someone else will really like it and offer you a pin that you couldn't normally obtain yourself. You'll drive yourself into depression if you live in the what-was or what-will-be tenses. Just saying... :sigh:

froggerway said:

Okay, I'm not trying to sound like the snarky witch here but has no one learned anything? Do you gain anything by reliving in an unchangeable past of pin buying?

So you didn't buy a pin when it was marked down and now it's the next great thing. At the time you did what made the most sense, you avoided having to hoard ugly pins. These pins haven't magically changed their appearance just because suddenly over 500 people have added them to their wants lists. Unless you measure appearance by dollar signs, but then that's whole other issue to be had. Those once marked down bargain pins...they are still ugly, it's just now someone in the proverbial crowd has yelled "fortune" and most everyone wants a part of that glitter.

Pin collecting is about buying/acquiring pins you like, not the rest of the world. If you really like the pin, you buy two in hopes that one day (near or far) someone else will really like it and offer you a pin that you couldn't normally obtain yourself. You'll drive yourself into depression if you live in the what-was or what-will-be tenses. Just saying... :sigh:

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Huh? I think most of the posts on this thread are about pins we wish we had in our own collection, not pins we wish we purchased in order to resell. Most of us have at least one pin that we missed out on simply because we had no idea it would skyrocket in price. I think regret over not buying something (reverse-buyer's-remorse?) is a normal thing in any collector's hobby. And I don't think there's anything wrong with occasionally commiserating over "the one(s) that got away."

We're not drinking ourselves to death here, or crying out in our sleep every night about that last Beloved Tales pin we left on the shelf. :lol: At least, I hope not!

Yeah!!! :facepalm: :sigh: This is a quite common feeling for me!!! :lol: Most recent is not pulling out the credit card for the Live Action Wedding Cinderella doll for $500, even had it in my cart and would have been cashed out by 12:01a.m., but decided to pass...now she is selling for $2000+!!! :eek2: :facepalm:

sorapandora said:

Huh? I think most of the posts on this thread are about pins we wish we had in our own collection, not pins we wish we purchased in order to resell. Most of us have at least one pin that we missed out on simply because we had no idea it would skyrocket in price. I think regret over not buying something (reverse-buyer's-remorse?) is a normal thing in any collector's hobby. And I don't think there's anything wrong with occasionally commiserating over "the one(s) that got away."

We're not drinking ourselves to death here, or crying out in our sleep every night about that last Beloved Tales pin we left on the shelf. :lol: At least, I hope not!

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In my case, I wish I just saved a couple of those pins liked my mother suggested that I did. :lol: (She thought that they were pretty, and now that I'm older I do too.) Sadly many, of the pins that I bought at the Disney store like the Belle and Beast Kiss pin I ended up trading for scrappers in the parks, so I guess I'm more feeling the remorse of "what could have been". (I wasn't even really aware of the sheer amount of scrapper pins, or beautiful pins like the DA pins, until I started looking online.)

But I completely agree with froggerway that we should maintain a positive attitude and that we shouldn't dwell on these bad experiences, and that pin collecting is about your wants, and that you shouldn't measure the value of a pin in your collection by the amount of other people who want it.

However, that doesn't mean that bad experiences and "coulda, shoulda, wouldas" don't happen. And talking about these past experiences does help with moving on from them a little easier. (At least it does for me.) It's really awesome to belong to a community which has members who have gone through similar experiences. At the end of the day, these bad experiences do not define our pin trading lives by any means. But, they are a very real part of them. And we're here to support each other through both the good and the bad. (I am now debating on if I should insert some "Let it Go" quotes in here but I think that's a liiiiiiitle too cheesy.)

Purplemandms said:

However, that doesn't mean that bad experiences and "coulda, shoulda, wouldas" don't happen. And talking about these past experiences does help with moving on from them a little easier. (At least it does for me.)

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Yeah, that's it for me, too. I'm the type of person who prefers to vent quickly and light-heartedly and then wipe my hands off and get back to the fun, rather than grump and wallow in the "what-ifs". Regret is like any other emotion- impossible to just say "don't feel it". Better to process it in some way then move on. Forums are nice in that other people have the same feels as you.

I do think it also gets to be a little more frustrating the longer you're in pin trading. When you're new, there are SO MANY things to focus on (and every year we get more and more pins). Regret still happens, but it usually takes time for things to climb in value. But when you get down to your last few pin wants, and half of them are going for these insane prices, a little bit of "I'm never going to own this" creeps in. Of course, I don't completely believe that- I've been able to find some incredible deals for some VERY hard to find pins. But also, realistically, those were "I got a $300 pin for $100" deals...$800+ is a completely different ballgame. One that my husband desperately doesn't want me playing in. :lol:

I remember being at the disney store and seeing the designer collection pins... and thinking the prices for them were way too expensive in store.. little did i know they would be going for 500 bucks a piece. so yes i want to punch myself by walking right past them.