Challenging time to have the nerve to hold big ticket PC items thats for sure!
I think everyone is a bit different and there isn't a wrong or right way to manage your PC.
Ive come in and out of the hobby a few times, have PCd a few different players and moved on. Steve Nash, Dwight Howard, Blake Griffin even Michael Kidd Gilchrist
. Also done some set collecting and sold once Ive completed the set. The joy for me is picking a guy and enjoying watching his games knowing you have an investment in him. Rooting for him to grow and develop and having something on the line.
I think its easy to look back and regret selling early when you see the price increase or when that player becomes an All Star after you've sold, but the cards or pieces you can bring yourself to let go aren't the ones you hold dear to your heart.
Fortunately some of my most treasured PC cards I'll never sell are worth next to nothing so there will never be temptation. Most important card to me is this dual game used, which was the first 'hit' my brother and i pulled from a pack at the local news agency back in 2005. We were just getting into following the NBA at the time. We followed the NBA finals that year Miami made the Eastern Conf Finals and the Spurs won the title. We didn't have top loaders or sleeves but we had this on 'display' in our room propped up against a tissue box. My interest in cards took off from there.
From then Ive kept one PC card from each stage in my player collecting, such as this MKG which wouldn't be worth the cardboard its printed on
. But it reminds me of the time I spent thinking that player was 'my guy'.
Ive had PC cards and big ticket memorabilia with values in the dollars to the thousands of dollars, but to me it is about the journey and the love of the hobby / sport.
My advice, if you can sleep at night knowing you may never have what you sell back, sell while it's hot. People are going bonkers and it could last a month, a year a decade who knows! But definitely don't sell if it means something to you in your collecting journey, those are the items you'll miss. Amazing collection mate!