[raulus]

I agree that good cards aren't going to hide, at least most of the time. I have found that sometimes a card won't surface in search results. Once or twice in major auctions, I've been randomly trolling through when I accidentally happened upon a card that I have been questing for. When I used a keyword search based on the player name, it didn't show up.

In one case it was because the card was buried in a larger lot, and they didn't call it out in the title. In another case, there was just some glitch. The player's name was right there in the title, but for some reason the search results weren't picking it up. In both cases, I feel like I got a pretty solid deal, likely because potential bidders weren't finding it.

In other news, I do think that with some good marketing, nice pictures, and maybe even some wildly over the top prose, a bidder might be enticed to throw caution to the wind and blow everything on some can't-miss cardboard. I suspect that for the right buyer with more money than sense, maybe who is more of a casual johnny come lately looking to make a splash, the effect here might be even stronger. No one around here would be enticed by such prosaic methods, but those other guys, all day long.

And a pic of one of the cards that I picked up cheaper than expected because it wasn't showing up in search results.