Posted By:
Hal LewisJohn:
I agree that the person who bid up the Mathewson MAY have been someone who "shot his wad" and then moved on and decided to buy something else...
but think of how BIG of a coincidence it would be.
This particular card is one-of-a-kind and has NO SET VALUE... so it is "worth" ANYWHERE from $1,000 to $50,000... depending on how crazy people want to get.
SO... how could it be that TWO STRANGERS (me and this other bidder) just OUT OF THE BLUE selected the exact same dollar amount as the "max" we would pay for this card?
Pretty Big Coincidence.
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Just like when someone starts a thread on here about how much a card (1914 Ruth, T206 Wagner) will go for in an auction.
The guesses are ALL OVER THE PLACE.
How STRANGE is it that the ONLY two people in the WHOLE WORLD who wanted this card really bad were both willing to spend the EXACT same amount and NOT a dollar more?
I smell a rat. 