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Old 09-03-2010, 09:15 PM
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Originally Posted by bcbgcbrcb View Post
The NC Speaker is a $3,000 card with an opening bid of nearly $2,400 with the juice, that's 80% of the value. That's 3X what the going rates are normally for starting bids in an auction.


But Phil isn't it sort of an empty ritual to start the card multiples below where it clearly is going to end up such that no early or middle bids could possibly win it anyway? Isn't it cleaner just to start it at what would be a reasonable winning bid?
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