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Posted By: Bob

Peter- I don't think that what was Bill meant. Bill can certainly speak for himself but I think he meant that there were more high dollar cards which were being bought by a smaller number of collectors. With prices shooting up and cards drying up, the days of the albums of tons of T206s and other cards at lower conditions and prices appears almost over. What you have is display cases with higher priced cards like Ramlys, caramels, etc. BUT if you watched carefully it was the Tim Newcombs, Bill Cornells, Matt Sears, Bryan Longs, etc of the world who were buying these up and not a single one is a dealer. When I see one collector plunk down $80,000 for vintage cards at a table and know he is a collector not a dealer, I think your friend's estimates are all wet. You should have seen all the nice cards I saw that were scooped up by collectors, not dealers. Ask one of the board members here who is strictly a collector to show you his 6 E94 Cobbs, one of each color or to tell you about his friend who picked up the gold E94 Wagner PSA 5 there. These are collectors my friend so I guess we can agree to disagree...
tbob