Talking about beatings, I saw this in the recent Mile High auction:
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In the auction description for a 1933 Blue Bird Ruth PSA 8.5, the listing states that the consignor purchased this card from an ebay BIN for $18,000. It sold on Mile High for $4,751.67 after BP. A different one of these also graded 8.5 is now available on ebay for a mere 12.5K BIN:
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