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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Tony, your conclusion that these prices were steals is based upon looking at the prices some of these cards and sets have received in the past couple years in other auctions -- which reflect that the values had really taken off during this period. Problem is, I don't believe that many of the previoulsy-reported prices are real (and I know this with certainty in some cases). So, I can't say that the prices of some of these lots received last night were actually "steals"; they may in fact simply be the appropriate prices without any fraud factored in. That the sad recipient of weak auction prices is Mastro, of course, is hilariously ironic.