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Posted By: Brueso

The "How much am I willing to spend for this" price guide- unique to every bidder. I'm not involved in this hobby for any other reason then to get the cards that look good to me (I've got esthetic, not financial, goals). Sometimes I get things for much better than "book value", sometimes worse. I tend to regard E-bay as a better general record of what things are actually worth. If something is in Beckett for much cheaper or more expensive than it's actually selling for "in the market", Beckett ain't helping much. Generally by the time I buy a card, I've probably seen 4 or 5 other auctions for the same thing so I have a general number in my head what I'm willing to pay. This Matty card ended at about the most I wanted to pay given its condition, but my snipe bid was a decent amount higher then the final "just in case".