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    I have found it too. I have wonder me, why it now has a case. Last time it was only a board. Or I am wrong?

    Is it the same as the one which was sold for US $999.- ? :

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    Even more interesting is that the seller did not set a reserve on it... if it was truly the original, surely he/she would want to recoup their original investment?

    I smell color copies and newly produced material here.

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    I think the seller got caught up in the moment during the first auction and realized he paid $1000 for a picture of the McDonalds arches. Now I'd guess he wants to get that money back, but it is odd that he didn't set a reserve. Those pictures look like the originals, but I would be careful.

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    It is the guy who bought it, I talked to Kurt about it a few months ago. Kurt was the one who sold it for the owner just like I did with my collegues Magicard.

    I am sure Kurt isn't too happy about it, he wanted to make sure it falls into a collectors hands not somebody who turns around a few months later and sells it again.
    "If a man is alone in a forest and says something, is he still wrong ?"

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    Yes this is the guy who bought it from Curt. Maybe he wanted to keep it but needs the money? Stuff like that happens...

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    I can't think of a better sererio. Curt shouldn't be upset but happy.

    A collector will get a second chance to buy it and this guy ( whoever he is ) foots the bill.

    I doubt it will get 1k this time around.

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    Haha, he doesn't need the money, you guys don't know who this is do you ?

    What I find rather suspect is that the high bidder is the same guy who won the magicard for $23xx.00,- from him earlier this year.
    "If a man is alone in a forest and says something, is he still wrong ?"

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    Haha, he doesn't need the money, you guys don't know who this is do you ?
    Not a clue. Curt told me he wanted to remain anonymous.

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    ..and just as soon as the auction started, it vanished.

    Any more conspiracy theories people?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CPUWIZ
    Haha, he doesn't need the money, you guys don't know who this is do you ?

    What I find rather suspect is that the high bidder is the same guy who won the magicard for $23xx.00,- from him earlier this year.
    Uh, I'm assuming by the nick that it's Mark Dill (or something like that). Possibly the same guy who is making the MagiCard and Video Life carts. Is that what you meant? Otherwise, no clue.
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