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Posted By: barrysloate

Ebay is a different animal than a catalog auction because of the advent of the snipe bid. You can't snipe in a catalog auction. A lot of times I see a card valued at $2500 on ebay with a starting bid of $2500. I consider that a retail sale, not an auction. It's perfectly valid, but the seller is really just looking for that one bid. And that is not in the spirit of a true auction.