[Tommy]

I'm reminded of the auction when the first of the Mustang Eleanor's (by the company that was later shut down for illegal activities) sold for something like $450K. I was stunned that anyone would pay that much for a replica of a movie car that was going to be replicated many additional times. Then it hit me. Commissions from the buyer and seller totaled 20% or $90K. The seller only needed to have a shill bidder run it up until they bought the car back from themselves. If they did that they'd have at least $90k of advertising and they could tell every other prospective buyer that the market value of their replicas was set at auction at $450K, or about $300K more than I thought the car was worth at that time. . . I don't know if that is what happened, but it sure sounds reasonable to me. . . . Some of these sales are about more than egos and who has the most money.