Interesting thread on the non-sports board

[PolarBear]

Originally Posted by Rich Klein

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfa...age_auctio.php

As an aside, Sam Merten, who wrote this story for the Dallas Observer, used to work in the Beckett grading department and has a good knowledge of collectibles. I did not re-read the whole article or through all the comments; but I will later. There is no doubt that this is a fairly well balanced story and comments WERE well balanced and very interesting.

Rich

Wow, great article.

I couldn't believe the pseudonym of their in house "bidder", N.P. Gresham. Greg Rohan, the President of Heritage Auctions, says the N.P. is for "New Purchase" but claims he doesn't know the significance of Gresham.

I'm calling B.S. (Baloney Sandwiches) on that one. Heritage is primarily a numismatic (coin) based company. One of the widely known axioms in coin collecting is Gresham's Law. The use of it here is clearly meant to mock the bidding process. I'm shocked at the audacity.

No wonder he claims he doesn't know the significance of Gresham. That sure wouldn't come across too well in a lawsuit about shill bidding.