I think would be very difficult to truly manipulate Cobbs and other rare-back or high grade HOFers, based solely on scarcity and cost/example. Instead, I think these cards are super hot right now, which is causing more supply to hit the market and the demand drives the cost. It will likely result in many of us over-paying in the short-term (shills or otherwise), but for those of us who are long on the cards, it will shake out ok in the end. The lesson for me here is that I need to pay mightily for cards I really want. I knew this already -- having posted a very high max bid on the Young bare hand Old Mill 6 at PWCCs last auction, only to get outbid -- but now I know that my very high max bids are likely insufficient to succeed on these cards and I need to now place very higher max bids.
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