Al, I realize that you are totally wedded to your auction closing method, which I and others don't especially care for because of how long your auctions run into Sunday mornings. I think this issue would be significantly bettered if you would merely begin your auction-closing process 2 hours earlier, but keep the same time intervals - i.e., 9 p.m. EST becomes 7 pm, 12 midnight becomes 10 p.m., and 1 a.m. becomes 11 p.m.
Al, I assume you have already become aware from a post in the LOTG pickup thread that the 1921 Tip Top Bread card of Lefty Grove that sold for about $40K would have sold for more, perhaps significantly more, if an avid pursuer of it hadn't fallen asleep. And, I doubt that your consignor of this card is thrilled to learn this. Yes, I realize that a bidder can safely leave a max bid because your integrity is of the highest level, but you should realize that many collectors just can't bring ourselves to leave max bids. I am one such collector, and I was bidding on a gotta-have card; at 1:30 a.m. my tired 81-year-old body was about to fall asleep at my PC; so, I decided WTF and put in a max bid and went to bed; yes, I did win this gotta-have card.
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Seeking very scarce/rare cards for my Sam Rice master collection, e.g., E210 York Caramel Type 2 (upgrade), 1931 W502, W504 (upgrade), W572 sepia, W573, 1922 Haffner's Bread, 1922 Keating Candy, 1922 Witmor Candy Type 2 (vertical back), 1926 Sports Co. of Am. with ad & blank backs. Also 1917 Merchants Bakery & Weil Baking cards of WaJo. Also E222 cards of Lipe, Revelle & Ryan.
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