For those who think "outing" an auction is OK, I say you are wrong.
If you don't have the time (or are too lazy) to comb through page after page of over-priced cards or shiny new junk on eBay, I ask WHY you should get the advantage of bidding on or buying a card you did little to no work for?
If I person puts in the time on eBay to find an under-priced gem then I think they should get the reward for that effort.
I mean, how would YOU like it if YOU were to go to the National and spend hours walking the aisles and YOU found something under-priced in a dealers case and, just as YOU were going to buy it, I stepped up and said VERY LOUDLY, "Wow, look at how low priced this rare card is?". Would YOU be upset about that?
Look, people think it is OK, to drive around neighborhoods looking in garages with their doors open and out in the countryside for parked cars that might be for sale at bargain prices.
People think it is OK to study and learn about real estate and then go looking for bargain properties to buy.
People think it is OK to comb the Wall Street Journal or look on line for under-priced stocks that they hope to buy and make a profit on.
Hardly anybody begrudges these people their time and effort (work) that they have put in to these endeavors in hopes of making a profit so what is the difference about a baseball card?
If YOU were the guy who found the rare car or the under-priced piece of real estate or stock, how would YOU feel if, after all of YOUR time and effort, somebody else came along and let a heck of a lot more people know about what YOU had found and THAT caused the price to increase?
Personally, I would be pissed. I think the SAME consideration should go for outing auctions.
The only way I think an auction should be outed is if there is a misrepresentation that can be or should be corrected (for auction houses) or, if on eBay, a seller is trying to sell a fake or reprint and we think people should know about it so that they don't get ripped off.
That is just my two cents on this issue.
David.
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