"What do you most regret selling?" Topic

I've sold off a ton of stuff, mainly because I needed the money.
Many fit the category of " I'm never going to play with these, so it.
Thus 25mm Aztecs, NKE Egyptians, Sassanids, etc.

But some I wish I didn't have to sell.
My 28mm Ireland 1920 rank high there. At least I got to fight them vs flying saucers.

I hope I don't end up regretting selling all my Ral Partha D&D minis, but I'm not betting on it.

All of it. Every last figure.

A crap-ton of GW Tau.

AH Attack Sub.
VG Fleet Series.
Columbia's Wizard Kings.

And to a lesser degree, my GW Epic 40K stuff. But that did bring in a lot of needed cash, so.

Everything I sold I'd like to have kept but the money was needed more. So no regrets.

Some Gripping Beast El Cid-era Spanish & Andalusians
Heroquest+modules and Advanced Heroquest
My first armies (6mm German WW2, 6mm Russian WW2, 15mm British Napoleonics, 15mm French Napoleonics)
WH40K Space Marines & WH40K Orks
Various 28mm fantasy figures
Panzerkrieg
Onslaught

Actually, most of that was given away for charity sales rather than sold…

The only positive thing about this list is that I haven't made a mistake (in this area!) in 19 years. Everything I have sold or given away since, I haven't regretted at all.

All of it. If I had the storage space I'd still have it.

Like nvdoyle,

My VG Fleet series of games back in '99.

I don't have huge regrets, but I found it ironic that shortly after I sold my Gripping Beast Saxons on eBay, (hadn't used them in years) SAGA came out. Those figures would have been a useful start to a Saxon warband. Other than that, no.

What I miss more than the figures themselves are the friends who have moved away, or passed away, and the games I enjoyed with those friends.

I regret nothing I sold or gave away. They are things… Toys… Stuff.

I just hope the new home enjoys the figures/board games they received.

5mm WWII North Africa. There were serious bills--it wasn't frivolous. But it's the only project I've sold or given away that I'm now rebuilding. (Actually twice: microscale WWII in Europe, and 15mm in North Afrika. But if I still had the original project, I wouldn't be fooling with either of the others.)

Not really regret. My Celtic and Viking armies I sold and replaced.

Grelber

I never sell anything I want to keep, just to raise money. Everything I flog off is surplus to requirements. But once…

Back when I was in short pants, between about ages 10 and 13, before I ever discovered wargaming, I was a committed plastic kit modeller. And over several years I built up a complete set of the old William Green "Aircraft of the Second World War" series, the little hard-cover books, it ran to about 12 volumes. And I had a batch of the MacMillan "Navies of the Second World War" series, that were in similar format, and a few of the Ian Allen "Navies" books.

Two or three times a year I would scrape together my birthday money or my holiday money and take a bus downtown to the old Shillitoes department store – their book department was the only place I knew that stocked these books – and buy whatever volume was currently on the shelf. They were very costly at the time – $4.95 USD or even $7.95 USD for the Ian Allen books, but so very worth it. I spent many hours leafing through each volume, studying and comparing the three-view line drawings and memorizing the text.

When I got to be 14 I developed an interest in sex, drugs and rock'n'roll, and girls, and plastic kit modeling was geeky and uncool. So I sold the whole library down at Ohio Books for pennies on the dollar. Makes me sick to think of it. Wish I had them now.

Sometimes these days I'll find one or two of these fifty year old books at a flea market or estate sale. They'll be battered and stained, their dust jackets torn or missing, their bindings held together with tape. I'll snap them up, pay whatever the vendor asks. There's never been anything like them, and never will be again.

Ditto Tacitus. I eventually bought back some of it.

Regret selling? That kidney I needed to buy the Baneblade from GW.

No regrets. I've only sold thing that I knew I would never use.

The money from the sales has been used to buy newer figures that I wanted. In one of my first sales of some old Cidital plastic cybermen and daleks, the money was turned around to buy 28mm miniatures from the Predator movie. The price of the Arnie and company was not something I would have purchased with "real money", however, I could view the cost as a trade.

I also sold off my plastic 1/72 ACW and replaced them with metal 22mm version.

My 7YW Prussian 28mm Front Rank collection…beautiful stuff but as all the above, needed the cash. The only saving grace is I did not paint them…so it was somewhat easier. I have not sold much items that I have painted…a hand full of tanks and a 10mm lizard army.

my soul

No regrets. Everything I sold off was for newer and better figures.

No regrets.

Figures? I gave away a ton of Atlantic, Airfix, and ESCI WW2 figures and tanks (both kits and completed), along with a lot of buildings when I moved to Poland. I wasn't really into it at the time and thought, 'What the heck – I won't complete the project anyway.'

I also gave away an almost complete set of 'The Courier' magazines.

Back in the late '80s one of my wacko girlfriends urged me to sell my Waffen-SS book collection of around 100 books and 'Siegrunen' magazines, and I regret following her advice. I would love to have that collection back, as some of the books are extremely rare today but like another poster said, "It's only stuff."

Warhammer Empire army. I'll never get back the time I put into painting it. And it was mostly classic metal figures too.

My unpainted 15mm early medieval, especially my Byzantine and Moslem figures. With "To the Strongest!" rules I've now gotten re-energized in that period and figure size.

Jim

My 15mm SYW collection. >sigh<

Probably nothing.

…my soul

I just rented mine. They gave it back when they were done with it. But I should have made them put down a deposit. They left such a mess. You'd think they'd been stabling goats.

Got rid of my Greek army (remember Thermopolite?) years ago. First army I ever painted. I also recently found a lot of Crimean War figurer that I started but will never finish. Been holding on to them now for over 20 years.

Too often for me it is the "extra" figures from changing rule systems… that I trade or sell. Months later I need to add "just a couple more figures" and I end up buying more than I need (because of packaging) and painting figures I once had, once "again."

28mm Plains Indians Wars collection.

My virtue…

No regrets…..so far!!

1985 Toyota Celica GTS, loaded.

Damn, I loved that car.

In hindsight I would rather not have sold my 15mm WW2 collection, but I needed the space….

Nothing I can think of. More often or not I realized that I shouldn't have bought it in the first place.

I've been fortunate enough to only "have" to sell my gaming stuff to generate funds for new gaming stuff, so I have no regrets about stuff I've sold.

My copy of Milton Bradley's Broadsides and Boarding Parties. I kick myself to this day for selling that.

I similarly regretted selling my copy of SPI's War of the Ring, but I recently re-acquired this title.

Sky Galleons of Mars.

Just one sale I regret. Loads of old Tom Meier sculpted Ral Partha elves, dwarfs and others. Many lovingly painted. I took them to sell individually at a flea market; I had my eye on other stuff to buy, and when a guy wanders up and offers me a stupid price for the lot, I agree.
What was I thinking??!!?

My old 25mm Normans….sigh!

Hardback copy of Caldwell's Small Wars, the paperback is almost impossible to read. Sold it less that a year before Foundry brought out their Darkest Africa figures.

My Classic Traveller collection, pretty much everything published (inc. 'approved for use with') prior to the release of MegaTraveller.

And for a pittance…

…Sob!

My Ral Partha fully painted Alexandrian army for Tactica.

Nothing

Almost every game. Miniatures not so much. I started out with 15mm Minifig 1st edition. So the sculpt have improved over time. So I sold old armies to replace them with new ones. Unfortunately now I do not even have the replacement armies.
Also I regret selling many of the books I had been using as reference and inspiration.

I sold a coverless copy of Detective Comics #27 -- the very first Batman story -- for $600 USD back in early 1986, before any of the Batman movies had come out to lift the franchise back out of the doldrums where it had been since the 1960s. I wanted the money to go to GenCon or Origins that year, whichever it was. In LA. I figured I'd not get a better deal. I regretted it after about a year or so and today I still kick myself. I'd probably make at least a hundred times that money today.

Not selling, per se, but in my 20s I did give away a fair number of 25mm fantasy minis that I dearly wish I still had.

Doug

I regret not a damn thing I have sold. I'd sell it all again.

My 1969 Javelin SST. I restored that car from a parts car and it was fast. A lot more rare than just about any other muscle car. I have regretted it ever since. Now I drive a KIA…

15mm Renaissance Ottomans. By Fire and Sword has hit the club and I would like to still have them.

Good news was I sold them to a guy in the club so we still have access to them and I kept anything medieval which was 80% of the army anyways.

Of course I would rather redo the whole thing in 28s but that is for when my kids are bigger I think…

The house ….. where I had space to leave up a big games table !!!