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Originally Posted by savedfrommyspokes
There is one buyer who consistently buys most every copy of this card listed on ebay....I have sold 50+ copies of this card to him via ebay over the past few years....he is the only one who buys any copies of this card when I list it and he normally buys within a day or two of me listing. This 61 242 Smith card buyer is very similar to another ebayer who used to buy many copies of the 64 Curt Flood card.
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SCD ran an article about a deranged soul whose sole purpose in collecting, or so it seemed, was to own every 1958 Topps Solly Hemus card. I think he had something like 500+ copies of that Solly. Maybe he was trying to corner the market on this card, and create a quasi-artificially-self-induced rarity. As if to say, "if you need this card, you'll have to come to me. Be prepared to pay through the nose!"
People like this already have too much of something else up their nose. It's a free country. These people just don't fit in with the "collect what you love" and "buy the card, not the number" or most any other kind of collectors. Or people period. They didn't get enough attention when they were growing up. They want to achieve some sort of crazy idiotic power.
But at the end of the day, I can't help but think they'd be disillusioned with their collecting life.
--Brian Powell