Hobby etiquette. Where has it gone?

[GeoPoto]

"Except that he got significantly less by going the AH route…"

My problem with this whole conversation is that it seems predicated on the notion that it should be easy to agree on a valuation that is within the 22 percent BP. For most pre-war cards that just is not true. Cards that rarely appear could go anywhere at auction and cards that do appear fairly often vary substantially based on eye appeal, which is inherently subjective. I regularly sell pre-war cards at auction that go for two or three times (and sometimes half) what I expect.

I realize the OP says he would have paid more, but that is all in hindsight. When the card was consigned, the seller could well have expected it to fetch much more than it did. Why the seller didn't alert the OP to the auction is a mystery that may be explained best by his comments on this post, as our friend from Ohio has summarized.

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