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jay behrenspcraven, you are little off your assumption too. I'll use a card I own as an example. My m101-5 Thorpe card would bring a couple thouusand dollars if a similar one showed up on the market. Just because the card sold for $3k and I am unwilling to sell my mine for that price does not mean that I would be willing to buy the card if I did not posses it.
Some of us, through dumb luck, shrewd buying or generousity of others, are able to acquire cards that we could not otherwise afford. Keeping these cards does not mean we are willing or inclinded to purchase these same cards at the current market value. I have about a dozen cards in my collection that I acquired a few years ago that I would not be able to afford today because I bought them for that segment of the market took off and these cards are basically off limits as far as selling them because I could never hope to replace them.
Jay
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