Would it be that hard to artificially boost the price for the more common grades of this card? You have this 10, get a few 'identity protected' bidders to have this high profile Ebay bidding war that ends with a crazy high price. The 'winner' gets their money back (or some of it and they keep the card) thru a different non-Ebay transaction. Then the organizer of the frenzy begins selling their 'stash' of grade 7-9 Rickey's, or even ungraded ones, at a significantly higher price citing this 100K plus sale of the 10.
Sorry if I am a cynic. If I heard someone on this site admit to placing one of those bids above 50K maybe I wouldn't think that way.
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