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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsHave you ever sold something and regretted it immensely?
I sold my beautiful bicycle about 3 years ago after I got a motorcycle. I've spent the last 3 years trying to hunt it down or find the same model for sale. This is going to follow me to my grave.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)It looked like it might have been a presentation piece. I paid $125 for it at the time, and sold it a couple of weeks later for $135. I thought I was doing great with that sale. But, as it turns out, that gold piece is probably worth thousands of dollars today because of its condition
elleng
(131,370 posts)but I regret letting my cousin borrow my 'complete Beethoven' album(s.) He never returned them/it.
madamesilverspurs
(15,819 posts)used the money for a downpayment on a car that broke down within a couple of months. Got better mileage out of the Wurlitzer.
Doc_Technical
(3,528 posts)n/t
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)including a Gibson ES 335 and Les Paul Jr., Epiphone Broadway, and pre-CBS Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster. I also regret selling the Marshall 100 Watt stack I bought in London, England in the late 60s. I also really miss the wonderful 1962 Jaguar Mark II I sold, the most beautiful car I ever owned. I had to come up with money for law school. Unfortunately, I learned that with regard to guitars and cars, they just don't make them like they used to and you just can't replace them with modern equivalents, as there are none.
Byronic
(504 posts)What a wonderful, wonderful, vehicle. The absolute top of the tree for me. Such style and elegance. Watching episodes of Inspector Morse must make you ache with loss!
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)from a bag of Chips Ahoy to someone. But I really wanted it. Haunts me to this day.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)how that would be a traumatic experience
anasv
(225 posts)Not only was I an idiot for selling it, but the new owners tore it down.
loli phabay
(5,580 posts)trout or hunt rabbits on it as i did when i was young. its silly really as its to far to travel to anyway but the thought is still there.
Paladin
(28,283 posts)Wish I'd done more with it, taken lessons, etc.
panader0
(25,816 posts)musical equipment I sold. And a '53 Ford. I did hang on to my '39 Martin 0017 tho...
Paladin
(28,283 posts)Glad to hear you hung on to it.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)I gave it away to my son's ex girlfriend back in 1995...a beautiful silver and turquoise squash blossom necklace and earring set. It had been a gift from an ex boyfriend and I didn't want to just throw it out. I thought my son and his gf would get married someday, so...
anyway, they broke up a few years later and while I see her on occasion, and we're Facebook friends, I'm still sort of sorry I didn't keep it.
What I regret being a part of selling...hubby's authentic Henry rifle used by his g.g.g. uncle in the Civil War. Complete with documentation and everything. We have a replica hanging on the wall now, but of course, it just doesn't hold the same sense of History...
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)I sent a series of art garments to a gallery exhibit in another state when I was in college, and the one piece I specifically told them wasn't for sale was sold.
I got the money, but I would prefer to have the piece.
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Raffi Ella
(4,465 posts)I can't think of anything I regret selling or giving away. I can think of some things I regret not buying.
spinbaby
(15,092 posts)Donated them to the Goodwill. They were great shoes, bought in Germany, made of butter-soft leather, but they were too snug, so I donated them. Then I lost a lot of weight and--guess what--your feet lose weight, too. I would love to have those German shoes back.
frogmarch
(12,161 posts)I could donate to the John Edwards pres campaign.
Walk away
(9,494 posts)I feel really bad for you. Maybe some child is making beautiful music with it.
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)at 50 cents to $1 a piece.
Some guy came along and offered my wife $10 for the whole lot. She took it. That was a huge steal.
Now I wish I had them all back.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)However I haven't been able to find another one in years.
The two that have come up for sale are well outside of my price point.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)What was I thinking?
TrogL
(32,822 posts)I've found a use for it and they guy who I sold it to hasn't paid for it.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)It was my first car. Bought the body when I was 15 for 250 bucks and an engine for another 250 and worked on restoring it until I got my license. It was in running condition when, a week after I got my drivers license I got drunk and ran it into a telephone pole.
It was fixable but more than I could handle at the time so I sold it to a guy for enough to get me a 71 Plymouth Fury III. I wasn't allowed to go anywhere in the Fury but school and work.
I should have kept the Firebird and fixed it.
On the plus side I've never driven drunk in the 33 years since.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)and it was passed to me. I ran into hard times and had to sell it. I didn't get anything near what it was worth.
liberal N proud
(60,352 posts)BarbaRosa
(2,685 posts)sigh