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Judge Dred (Fred)I agree with Scott also. Someone picked up near complete series of cards and paid a premium so they wont have to go looking for too many cards to complete the set.
I guess if only one person is seriously looking to complete a high grade set of these cards then there wont be too much of a price push, now if you get two or three deep pocketed types looking to complete high grade sets then there could be a pretty good bidding war for the nicer material.
Somehow I don't think the person that paid this much for the cards will really care if they can recoup the cost of the cards if they tried to sell the dupes. People fortunate enough to have great resources probably see the goal as completion of the sets and price may be of minor consideration for them so reselling dupes and recouping costs probably isn't a concern.
I'm still amazed at the final cost per card... great for the auction house and consignor.