What where the best deals you foolishly passed on?

[dashv]

The main one that sticks out is the time I saw a Dreamcast in Goodwill for like $10-15.  Who knows if it worked, though.

This is actually why I stopped going to thrift stores.

I can’t pass up deals like this and over a two year period I literally brought home 12 $10 Xboxes. :-P

[wartoy]

The company who published "El Chavo Kart" on Xbox 360 and PS3 was selling new, sealed copies on Amazon for $19.99. They were selling them for a while...and when they sold out, the price for the game skyrocketed.

I remember this I told a friend we should order two and then never did.

[ferraroso]

I once saw a Sony HB-F1XDJ MSX2+ in mint condition being sold for less than ¥10,000 (around US$85) and let it pass. When I returned to the shop the next day, it was nowhere to be found and, to this day, I still only own a plain MSX2 (which I love)...
I was able to score a complete Apple Pippin at the same store for ¥7,000 (US$60) a few months after that though.

The company who published "El Chavo Kart" on Xbox 360 and PS3 was selling new, sealed copies on Amazon for $19.99. They were selling them for a while...and when they sold out, the price for the game skyrocketed.

I remember this I told a friend we should order two and then never did.

It can still be found for fairly cheap in Brazil though. It was released there under the slightly different Portuguese title "Chaves Kart".

[pzeke]

We've been here before, but Tomba!, The Misadventures of Tron Bonne, and Ninja Five-O; I held each of them in my hands, and either just decided not to get them or got something else instead. There's also Ninja Gaiden Trilogy, which I outright decided to ignore while at a flea market many years ago before the retro boom. I know there may be more, but those are the ones that I always remember and regret not getting the most.

Another would be back when I started buying on eBay, someone was offloading all six Mega Man games for the NES for $100something, and I didn't go through with the deal because at the time I didn't own the console. And what stinks particularly more about this one is that this was back when the hobby had yet become the monster that it is today, so I was indeed going to get a good deal for the lot.

But hey, what can you do? The past is the past—you live and you learn.

I should have purchased Bitcoin in the beginning.

I was actually there and I thought about it long and hard, but I dipped out. It just reeked like sardines at the time to me, and, well, it sounded too good to be true...as funny as that may sound now. No regrets, though; but I do know two that invested early and are now laughing it up like plump ham hocks.