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Posted By: Rob Fouch

Hmm. I guess that's a good way of looking at it, Barry. btw, it was $6500. ($5200 after the auction company took its cut.)


I guess there is a slight difference. The seller knew he owned the book but failed to do any research on it and chose to sell it for $1. If he's dumb enough to do that (and thank God people are), it's his fault. But he didn't know he had the card. If he saw it, he most certainly would have looked into whether it was valuable. People are often naive about how much books can be worth. But most people know old baseball cards can have significant value. Though usually they tend to overvalue cards they own.

I'm probably leaning toward what Peter said. If they didn't take the time to go through and make sure there wasn't something in the book, too bad for them. Now if I can only find that Cobb . . .