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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
A low end 10? ?? Seriously? The whole thing has reached a point of absurdity if we are talking about high end and low end 10s.
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A big +1 there, Pete. The guys that buy these things, IMHO, might as well be paying for them with beans--what they're laying out in $$$ is to them what $35 bucks would be to most, or at least a lot of us. They just have it in their heads that they want (or deserve) the very best, and money is the least of their worries. As I've said before, for what you actually get for your money, a nice "8" or "8.5" should be at least a fifth or sixth of the price of a gem mint "10," and certainly not hundreds of times the amount of the latter. Leon said it though--we all collect in different ways. I'd never pay that for a '74 Schmidt (although he is the greatest 3rd baseman of all time) when I just paid a tad over $4,000 for one of the total of three graded 1939 V351 Ted Williams rookies in SGC Ex. No question whatsoever in MY mind as to who got the better deal, now and at any time in the future!
Best wishes,
Larry