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PaulI guess I'll defend my "they must be idiots" comment. I realize people are free to spend their money how they want, and one could certainly question the sanity of all of us for spending the money we do on pieces of cardboard. But, I just can't understand why someone would pay 10 or 100 times the NrMt book value of a card because of a third party's subjective opinion that the card looks slightly nicer under 10x magnification. I just don't know how anyone would get more personal joy out of the card because of a difference you can only see in perfect lighting on a good day -- particularly when the difference can't be seen at all after the card has been slabbed. I feel the same way about coins and diamonds. So it's not a phenomenon that's unique to cards. It's just something I will never understand. I just can't come to grips with why someone would pay $28.5K for an Albert Pujols when he could have maybe 100 or 1000 of the same card (or a wide variety of cards) that look just as nice to the naked eye for the same price.