I have nothing to back it up except personal observation...nonetheless, the people I see buying cardboard that maybe shouldn't are the pack/box busting types, not the buying-singles type. By a wide margin, those are the guys/gals I see rolling up trying to sell nearly their entire collection at once because "something came up."
That said, and though it's something that's been offered by auction houses for a long time, I'm seeing (and getting in emails) a whole lot more offers to give you money up front if you cosign cards. There's auction houses that didn't used to do this as a means of promotion that are now extremely up front about their ability to do this.
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