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   How many times has this happened to you?  I'm mainly a single player collector.  Herschel Walker is my main focus, and I'm trying to collect as many different cards as I can of him, including inserts, parallels, auto's, memor, ect.

   I'm closing in on 600 different cards, and today I clicked buy on a 2012 Authentic SP 1994 Die Cut '94 SP14.  I'm trying to fill in as many empty spaces as I can on the database, on Herschel's page.

   But whoops, the empty space was for the autographed die cut version, not the regular one, which as you can see, I've already uploaded.

    Only a $5 or so mistake with shipping, but chalk it up to the fact I should pay closer attention next time.

  So many different versions, it gets tough sometimes.

I just did it last month, I bought two copies of the same card from the same vendor on the same day. I have my entire collection fully documented so it doesn't usually happen, but something like that has happened to me multiple times....nothing's foolproof, I suppose.

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Happens frequently especially with one's favourite players. For me, Nolan Ryan. I don't always have my updated checklist with me so if I see a card that I may not have, I buy it (for the right price).  Sometimes it works, other times it means I have added trade bait.  But it is rareon the higher priced, older cards.

For the truly insane like me (ask my wife) that's about all you do buy; otherwise you wouldn't have 30,000 cards for a NASCAR driver who retired 15 years ago and never won a race...

http://www.tradingcarddb.com/Person.cfm/pid/23513/Hut-Stricklin-

That's the main reason I finally started entering my cards, mostly my Royals cards, into TCDB. I would go to a show and pick up some cards only to come home and discover that I already had them. Now I ALWAYS enter a card after I get it. 

Funny story: I was buying a card on eBay recently and noticed that the dealer had "free shipping" on additional purchases so I checked for any other Royals cards. There was a 2017 Donruss All Star, Eric Hosmer, SN999 for 99 cents. I was pretty sure I already had one but when I checked TCDB it wasn't marked. I added the card to my order and marked it as "in transit". When the cards arrived I added them on the site and then went to place them in my notebook. Sure enough I already had the Hosmer.  (I think when I got the original one the checklist for All Star subset hadn't been created.) Anyway, the funny thing was the first card was SN599 and the second one was SN598.  

I'm the weirdo who will, in some cases, willingly buy two copies of a card.. 

If it's something like Larry Walker as an Expo from the 1990s, I could have three.. 

(One for my Expos collection, one for the set, if collecting, and one for the Canadians binder)

Been there, done that, and got the lousy T-Shirt. I used to do it a lot in my early days of Ebay when I would bid on two separate auctions in the hopes of winning at least one of them. Sometimes winning both at different prices. Also in the early days of Ebay I used to only bid my minimum or just a little more than the current bid. I soon learned how to bid my maximum. Sometimes making a new maximum and still losing. I recall a few CDs I tried to buy several times that I eventually had to go over $30 to even get a fair chance at winning them. Now days I get unintended duplicates because I haven't updated my have lists here, or Zistle in it's pre-Beckett Owned Days. I rarely add to Zistle now but still check its forum.

Mike67 I sometimes purposely buy a second or third of a card. A few years ago I went nuts on some 2007 Donruss Classics Football "Classic Combos" because of cool SNs for PC Players.

I did it a few weeks ago on a pre-war card. It's a 1911 D311 Pacific Coast Biscuit Willie Hogan card.

I've purchased doubles of a few John Olerud cards inadvertently too, usually because I hadn't updated my checklist. Generally nothing too expensive fortunately. 

I hate it when you go to a card show, and you bring along your ipad or chrome book and then the hall dings you for like $30 bucks for wifi access (yes I'm talking about you International Centre in Mississauga for the twice a year Sport Card Expo) so you are left with do I have it or not!