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CoreyRS.hanusboxingcardman,
I think you make a great point. As a practical matter, proving damages could be an insurmountable hurdle for collecting meaningful damages in actions involving multi-card lots. Where I can see an action against collusion having a potentially more profitable application would be a single card lot consisting of a condition rarity targeted to a high-profile registry member, or a high-grade rare set targeted to a set collector. There, there may be a few whales who are the target buyers for such offerings. If they banded together and allocated this particular offering to one of them, with (1) the understanding the next would go to another, or (2) payments to the others as compensation for withdrawing from the bidding, then you could conceivably establish real damages.