Hey Big Spender

[David Atkatz]

Originally Posted by vintagecpa

The numbers appear to be reasonable.

The "numbers" are totally arbitrary, and absolutely meaningless. Made up of whole cloth, they represent nothing more than Bruce's snobbish biases.

David

We certainly would like to see your numbers- you are quick to accuse, but never offer anything but sarcastic comments.

We suppose that the next thing that you are going to state is that President Obama's economic policies are well received by the American public.

We certainly did not publish these numbers randomly. Furthermore, we see nothing wrong with talking about the high end of the market. You, yourself own a plethora of high-end Yankee material..

The question raised about items that appear in multiple auctions or items that are not really sold, despite the auction house stating to the contrary, is one we do not believe anyone can answer.

Our conclusion is that the large baseball auction house market is about $100M (re-sales and false sales aside) 15% of the value comes from items selling in $5000+ range. Our best estimate was there are 200 collectors who spend $25,000 or more 50 collectors who spend $100,000 or more and 5-7 collectors who spend a million dollars or more. Nothing more, nothing less.

Hope you are well.

Bruce

[T206Collector]

I have ABSOLUTELY NO PROBLEM with discussing the numbers, whether it be how many $1 million collections are out there, or how many T206 beater collectors there are out there.

It is all about the TONE AND INTENT of the question: If meaningful dialogue on this point was actually the INTENT of the question, then it should not be written in such a TONE.

Whether or not someone can tolerate the tone to get at the true intent of the question is entirely besides the point. The questions themselves would be sufficiently provocative without all the atmospherics surrounding them.

While I enjoy reading the train wreck as much as anybody, these posts always devolve into pure drivel.

Bruce could stand to take a page out of the Jim Crandall playbook. Crandall's collection is now getting the attention and merit that it so rightfully deserves. Crandall has an open door policy, and will invite people over to see his collection. And he has shed all of the drama of his earlier posts.