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Posted By: Bottom of the Ninth

As was mentioned by a couple of members, I was the under bidder on the MHCC T5. Prior to their securing the item, when asked, I told them I could see the card selling for 150K or more based on what I had seen in recent auction results for cards of similar scarcity and importance. Being an avid Jackson collector and never having seen another example I made a bid hoping to own the item. I suppose it was a blessing to me to have only come in second when the following day I learned that Mastro had secured one. And raising the question as to how many more are out there.

I hope I am not stepping on toes when I tell you that the T5 was offered to me by Matro prior to their placing it in the auction. My offer for Mastro's example was too far off from their asking. My offer was based solely on the fact that the photo had the horizontal flaws and more importantly the item was certainly not unique and I had questions about how many more are out there. Making the value I placed on the item significantly less.

I did not win the one in Mastro due to other issues, the foremost being bad timing and not being able to liquidate investments to pay for the item. I had already committed all available cash on hand to two large card deals and was between a rock and a hard place and was not about to start putting myself in a bind for hobby purposes.

While this may not be anyone's business and many of you probably do not care but due to a couple of people who have posted even after knowing this entire story but decided to post their suspicions and fuel the fire and more importantly, Corey's recent post in which he has all but called me a shill for MHCC, I felt people should have some more facts before they go off with their various conspiracy theories as is so popular here.

Greg