Care to share your thoughts and/or experience with buyer's remorse?

I've found that buyer's remorse, like the common cold, usually goes away after a couple of days.

 

Tom

I'm having it RIGHT NOW. Found a good -truly- deal on a small brass steamer that

I want (command, sound, etc); unexpected. Also had a bid in online for a sweet, almost-

new RK Reading Crusader (PS1). Got outbid. Should have let it go and gone for the

brass (it's a kinda rare piece). Didn't. Chased it a little. Got it for $175. Nice; good model (a bit small, but handsome). I care little about the Reading; I just like the machine.

 

Now, I regret buying the Crusader (got to take that lettering off) because I should

have put the $175 toward the brass steamer, which is also a very good price, but

more (more loco/features, too), and rare. The Crusaders (MTH and K-line)

do appear occasionally.

 

So, yeah - regrets all the time, and what makes them so intense is that I have more

things than I can ever really enjoy, and "wasting" the money on the Crusader will

now make me regret buying the brass - which I probably will actually purchase. Double whammy.

 

As Jim Carrey said in "The Mask": "Somebody STOP me!"

No buyer's remorse here because I don't buy expensive trains. I like to buy mostly cheap old fixer items that I can repair myself. I just wouldn't have got involved with another scale if it was going to cost a bundle. I find the older trains nostalgic and it's a kick to see them run again after years of neglect.

 

 

"Before" picture. After cleaning and servicing and replacement of some missing parts, I recently got these metal Marx items operating.

Please forgive me I've decided to approach today's train thoughts a bit more lighheartedly versus my previous approach...

 

"if at that later time I still think it would be a wise and useful purchase..."

What is that?

 

More seriously, I think buyer's remorse can best be cured by the next impulsive and emotional purchase

Only after a few adult beverages and making a purchase on the bay.

Yep - seller's remorse, too. Triple whammy. But I don't get that very often, because

I sell little, we don't have much in the way of train shows and I don't sell at online auction. 

 

Oh, BTW, the price of the item has nothing to do with the regret. I do have some

cheap stuff, and I am a big admirer of Marx 3/16" and Marx in general, but I don't have a bunch (have a few) of "old fixers" because I don't want the stuff. It is just what it is, and I'd much rather have the modern scale/scale-ish items.

 

Cheap items make sense only if that is what you want; $200 for something you want is

less wasteful that $50 for something you don't.

On the rare times I have had buyers remorse concerning my train purchases, I find that eBay will cure that immediately once the item sells.  Often I will only lose a little money or at best, break even, but I know that someone else will treasure it, and my remorse will be gone.

Luckily, this has only happened a few times.

Since my train budget is very small, most things I buy have been well thought out long in advance and it's just a matter of finding the item at a fair price.