While I am inclined to support the "lazy collector" theory, in this case I think we have a buyer who is both lazy and uneducated -- probably a non-collector who read about Craig Counsel's futility and Bill Bergen's record in the paper or saw it on the Colbert Report and went trolling through ebay.
We should have a trivia question/game--what is the highest price fo a beater common with no special back, cut, color, etc., ever reached in a clean and straight auction? $34 probably doesn't take the cake, but it has got to be in the running.
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