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Originally Posted by vintagetoppsguy
I understand what you're saying, but it's just hard to imagine someone doing that. Let's say when you paid $5K for that card, you were in a bidding war with one other bidder and it drive the price to $5K, but you won the card. Now another card of the same kind and grade is on eBay with a high bid of $2K. Well, this time there is no bidding war to drive the price up. I can't see you bidding on the card at that point, just to keep the VCP average up. What if you ended up winning the card for say $2200 because nobody outbid you? Now you have two cards, one you paid $5K for, the other you paid $2200 for, and it still lowers the VCP average to $3600.
I just can't see someone throwing up a bid on a card to keep the VCP price up knowing that they could possibly "win" the card.
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This has been discussed at some point...I think you'd be surprised how many people "bid up" cards they perceive as bargains as compared to prior sales prices...so as to "protect" their investment...with no intention of actually trying to win said card.
Sure this can backfire...but with tougher cards...this occurs all of the time.