What are your trading REGRETS?

[FlyingJesus]

I am notoriously terrible at predicting the market, always buying up the rares that plummet to 7c in a week and failing to even look into anything that people will actually want! We've got a thread here about your best deals if you manage to snag a bargain, but what I want to know here is your WORST choices in trading over the years

I have a great many regrets in terms of not buying things (the big "aquarium" furni that I love was ~200 at one point and I thought that was too much, now it's like 600) but I would say my worst choice is gonna have to be selling off the oversized scarves I got from the original Black Friday deal... I got about 90 for each one I think because I thought it was ugly and still do tbh but today the average on MP is 5429 - slightly more than I got for them.

Destined to be forever poor.

[Ekelektra]

I regret not buying one of the trophies from the birthday Twitter competition this year. I looked at them when they were 200c and thought they would go down...

And when they came out I crafted a Glittering Halo and sold it for 100c thinking more people would craft them and flood the market, but they're 10x that now!

[tbl]

I have loads of these!

I'm constantly finding something I want and instead of buying it, I'm always hoping the price goes down... check back a week later and it's more expensive.

I sold a Ted, and while it wasn't a complete loss, I want it back!

[lawrawrrr]

I regret selling my first oversized scarf at about 100c.... killer that one! That’s one of the reasons why I hoard so many clothes now

[Jarkie]

I regret selling my first oversized scarf at about 100c.... killer that one! That’s one of the reasons why I hoard so many clothes now

Oh my gosh, what a horrible feeling haha!!

My regrets is not letting prices rise and selling things quickly then finding out a year or two down the line it is worth more. So like Laura, I hoard everything for quite some time

[lawrawrrr]

Oh my gosh, what a horrible feeling haha!!

My regrets is not letting prices rise and selling things quickly then finding out a year or two down the line it is worth more. So like Laura, I hoard everything for quite some time

yeah I’m honestly just relieved that I did save one and managed to sell it earlier this year for over 5k!! Happy days

[-:Undertaker:-]

Hmm. Possibly buying a number of Pink Marquees which still sit on my old account. Although they've held value, they're very niche items and few in number - meaning selling just one could have destabilised the price. I just checked their price now and they've doubled... but still, it took years for any movement and I was worried about being saddled with them.

[Lewis]

Back when confirming a trade just involved an instantaneus tick (during the shockwave days I think, not sure if it was periodically like this during flash) I remember quick trading being quite popular. They'd sell some expensive item, like a throne, for an hc sofa. They'd trade you the throne, tick, untick, cancel, and repeat this a few times and swap the throne sometimes for something like a red plasto, hoping they'd trick you. This quick trader was quite daring and did tick the box for a milisecond before canceling the throne trade, and retrading and trying to get me to give them an hc sofa for a red plasto or something like that. They traded me several times, sometimes it was the throne, sometimes it was a plasto. I thought I could outsmart the quick trader and get the throne. Wrong. There goes my hc sofa for worthless plasto chair.

Not sure of the actual items involved in the trade I had, but I think it was something like that.

[Triz]

I never trade anything anymore, but once thing I did regret was selling about 15 Thrones back when they were 380c, and then a few mere months later then shot up to 700c and I was sitting there like a lemon thinking about what past me had done

[HOSKO02]

I've got plenty, mainly regrets that I didn't keep hold of a lot of rares and supers that have passed through my hands through the years but I've sold on at sometime or other, ranging from a decade or more ago to more recently. These include the platinum bar (bought on release, sold early), Golden Tablet (traded for on prize giving week, later sold), Zon Parasol, Army Chairs, Idea Teleports, Ads_1800 Teleports, numerous Pear Trees, Ultramarine Sub, a complete Trax collection, lots of pre-merge UK hotel staff trophies... the list goes on. It's easy to look back with the foresight of current prices and bemoan your too-quick trades of yesteryear, but I suppose that is all part of the economic experience of Habbo. By and large though, I've traded terribly and very seldom turned a profit. I think that requires more shrewd trend reading, cut-throat deadling and dedication to finding bargains and patience in the market than I've ever had.