Yea, we know one person was willing to go to 9K, would anyone else have?
Jerome
If someone is willing to go to $9k, why not $10k?
It would only take two kamikaze bids at the very end of an auction for it to happen. But we'll never know, because the seller opted for a fee-free sale (that would have been his net at a $10k auction hammer price anyway).
Incidentally, this is now at least the third ~$8k+ price that's been paid for this book. This 9.8 copy (twice now), and another boardie did a trade for a slabbed 9.6 (FMV $4k) plus $4k cash for a very nice raw copy that was previously offered (raw) on ebay for $8k. The boardie subsequently sent it in for grading and was lucky enough to ace the other new 9.8 this past summer. It now sits firmly entrenched in his awesome registry.
-J.
I must have missed this. So the seller that just sold for $9k had $8k into the book himself ?