>>58628834Overpaying is rare since I only buy singles and for modern I have the bare minimum self control to not buy new sets for the first 2-3 months, while for vintage I just buy bulk and mid-price cards I like when I travel to Japan.
Missing out haunted me especially for some XY and SM stuff (the old team rocket suitcase promos, the Charizard vs Venusaur magazine promo, Mario&Luigi pikas, the 20th anni pika promo, the munch cards) that I will never ever have now, while in the current craze it's impossible to have such cards again because everything TPC prints is in the spotlight 24/7, meaning every cool collaboration means people killing each other in stores, people stealing cargos before they get to the shops, scalping and stealing with a lot of fakes around. See the 1510 chink Mew.