Have you ever bid to protect your cards?

[barrysloate]

You could actually place the second card in a safe deposit box and not let on that it exists. That would be one alternative to destroying an artifact.

[Matt]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

You could actually place the second card in a safe deposit box and not let on that it exists. That would be one alternative to destroying an artifact.

Oh come'on barry - that's cheating! Say everyone knows you have two so hiding it will do you no good.

[barrysloate]

Well that actually creates an ethical dilemma. Is it better to lie and preserve the card; or tell the truth, but destroy something of great value?

What you have are two bad choices. Of course, there are other ways to look at it.

[drc]

I don't think you should destroy the one card, and I don't believe the price would rise from $5,000 to $15,000 anyway. Even if you are an unethical bastard, keep both cards.

[Matt]

it's a hypothetical - assume the facts are as offered.

David - you can't see a circumstance where two guys both badly want the card - if there are two of them then they aren't bidding against each other and if there is only 1 then they are?

[Gecklund311]

I think everyone pretty much agrees that if a person can pay the bill, they can do what they wish with what they purchase, even destroy it.

That does not, however, make the person's actions right or even ethical.

The actions of Upper Deck and others in destroying many historical bats and jerseys in order to place small pieces of them in cards are a good example here. They may have paid the bill for what they destroyed, but I'd still love to give whoever came up with the idea a swift kick in the nuts.

[Jacklitsch]

Seems to me that if you locked one card away and advertised the other as the "only" card in existence that would be fraud.