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Originally Posted by Vegas-guy
Umm maybe? But your mind set changes, they might not be thinking of it like you and me but more of a want instead of investment/other. There are only a certain # of 10s and he/she wants one, doesn't matter how much.
I look at it like this, when I was young and had no money there was no way I would have paid even 20 dollars for a steak dinner, now I see one on a menu for 48 maybe even 60 and if it's a nice place think hmm that's not bad or go buy a 100k car I know as soon as its off the lot I've lost 20k but I wanted it. It just gets to the point of thinking about thing different than "normal" people. Now having said that could you do things like that every day and still keep all your money NO but a want is a want and if you have the means your not thinking about the cost. Just my .02
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Reg, I really don't know - not knocking your opinion. I do know this - people don't generally start behaving illogically once they become wealthy. Yes, they could, and I'm sure there is plenty of wild splurging, but I haven't seen such a pattern among card collectors. I knew an extremely wealthy collector who used me as a broker. It didn't matter what number I gave him - he wanted it 10% cheaper. He had that attitude on the way up, and he still does. But on the other hand, if he got into a bidding war with someone, he was going to win, just to show them he could. Maybe that's what happened here.
Or maybe the winning bidder was Forrest Gump.