So I just had a lovely chat with one of our newer collectors and she was worried about making a bad desicion on a recent ebay purchase.  Well that got me to thinking....I think it's safe to say that each of us made some kind of oopsies or blunder when we first started participating in this "sport" that we would never let happen today!  Whether it's overpaying for a common item, getting the runaround on ebay, customizing a rare pony, or throwing out those "extra" accessories, etc.  You get the point.  We've all done it!  It's basically a rite of passage, maybe you're not officially a collector if you haven't been through the experience!
 
So Old Schoolers, what was the biggest boo-boo you made as a new collector that you would definitely know better than to do today???  If there was an actual Pony Collector Rite of Passage, what things would qualify for initiation?!
 
For me, I grossly overpayed with a BIN on one of those MOC Fancy Pants Babies (from Argentina I think?)  I assumed that I had found some crazy rare peice of lost MLP treasure!  Well, we all know what happens when you assume!  Needless to say, I learned quite quickly that you can pretty much sneeze in any direction of the internet and get snot all over one of those things!