Any sales you wish you could buy back?

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I did let Hugh swap me out of a nice SAA I am sure I will regret not keeping someday but at least I know its back in Texas where it belongs. I will put a different twist on this thread as it reminds me of a Colt python I brought from a young man who came into our gunshop with a sad story about how he needed money to pay bills and had a new baby at home. The mint in the box 6" Python had belonged to his grandfather and he really didn't want to sell it but he assured me he had no choice so I reluctantly gave him $200 and he was on his way. At the time I didnt have a Python and this one was nice so I did the paperwork and took it home and stuck it in the safe. I dont really like to buy guns from customers who are seeing hard times as it may cause hard feeling over time but this young man showed no ill effects and kept coming in and was a good customer. I guess 15 years or so went by and he was in the shop one afternoon and brought up the Python which I had not thought of in a long while and had not had out of the safe for several years . He asked me if I could find out who brought it as he would like to buy it back if it were at all possible,I told him to come in the next day and I would try to have it looked up for him. The next afternoon he came in and I layed the box up on the counter and he could not belive it was his pistol and I still had it. He asked me what I needed for it and I told him $200 would do if he would not make the same mistake again and he assured me time had learned him better. He continues to be a good customer today and the profit I could have made was no comparison to the good feeling I got from the look on his face. Sometimes thing do work out for the best. clint