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Posted By: Rhett Yeakley

Wow, that was some of the strangest bidding I have seen in a long time. It appears that a few people got a little carried away. I know the fore5k... is working on the set and has some $$, so I assume he put some high cealing bids in to make sure he would win them, probably not thinking that he might actually get outbid. The rare (high #) guys in the set are extremely difficult, as Bill said, and wasn't so surprised that they went for a fair amount of cash, but the "commons"? that was a little bid strange, and doesn't (in my opionion) fairly represent their true "value". I have a feeling you are going to be seeing a lot more of these cards coming out of peoples collections in the next little while, with people hoping they can cash in on this craze. Every once in a while this sort of thing happens on ebay. About 3-4 years ago there was a similar, albeit much more mild, situation with the C46 set. The commons in VG to EX condition could be had for about $10-25 before a few gentleman decided to all collect the set at the same time, and for about 7-8 months the commons in that same range were going for $40-60 ungraded. After that time they have gone down in value somewhat and a little more reasonable today- $20 should get you a C46 on ebay in VG to about $35-40 or so for a nice ungraded EX.
-Rhett