***WARNING: Facetiousness Alert!!!!***
Let me start with this...
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Unless you are not human, how is it possible to open up
ANY new pick-ups thread and not be completely jealous and blown away by all of the gorgeous items there???? After all, no one is posting
Bud Daley and
Al Jackson commons in the hopes of getting pats on the back.
Nope. Every new post in these threads is made for the express purpose of impressing and dazzling everyone else.
What can be done to assuage the envy that takes years off of each and every collector's life???
Here's the solution:
For now on, if you choose to post something in any new pick-ups thread,
you MUST include exactly what you paid for each item posted.*
The end result would be a welcome relief, and look something like this:
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BEFORE 'prices paid' was mandatory:
"Holy hell!!!!!!!! Look at that incredible haul of Mantles, Clementes and all of those short print high numbers!!!!!! I wanna cry. My life sucks...and I'm sure my wife doesn't even love me anymore.** I need a nap."
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AFTER 'prices paid' was made mandatory:
"Holy hell!!!!!!!! Look at that incredible haul of Mantles, Clementes and all of those short print high numbers!!!!!! Wait, he paid almost two times as much as I could've gotten the same cards for at my LCS????? What a joke!!!! Holy crap, what a schmuck!!!! I can't stop laughing!!!!!!!"
It's a start.
*Perhaps receipts or links to ended auctions woud be required? We can suss all of that out later. 
** Ha!! Like she ever did!