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Originally Posted by docpatlv
Surprised this comment was overlooked with no responses. I thought it was one of the most interesting comments in this whole debacle. For those of you who agree that it was okay to continue auctions on the stolen cards, do you also agree that it may have been to the detriment of other consignors as illustrated in the highlighted section above?
If your consignment could have netted an extra 5-10k+ had a bidder concentrated on your lot instead of chasing a stolen lot, would you have been happy?
M.ike P.ugeda
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Gabrinus touched upon this in post #37, and I picked up upon his thoughts in post #51. Here is what I wrote almost 500 posts ago:
Originally Posted by gabrinus View Post
Holy shit that sucks...I understand the insurance angle but that money could have gone to other cards in the auction...Jerry
Definitely a great point...not only did this hurt the winning bidders of the missing cards, some of whom perhaps would have shifted their bidding money to other non-stolen lots, but the consigners of some non-stolen cards in the auction perhaps could have had the action on their lots potentially minimized because of the decision to keep the stolen auction lots open.
Condolences to all involved, and just a sucky situation all around that, with some common sense precautions, probably could have been avoided in the first place.
brianp(arker)-beme (quoting brianp(arker)-beme) - man, this thread has a lot of words!