Okay, so I wasn't a complete idiot on that Thunderball 6sht, since Bruce's copy has just passed what I paid at Heritage Signature a couple months ago
realistically, what anyone else wants to pay should be meaningless. You paid what you paid because you wanted to buy it. Why should you need validation that someone else will pay more?
Sean and I discuss all the time our expectations about selling our collections and neither one of us ever expects to get out in a positive manner, but all the time in between now & when I lose my money, I'm enjoying the stuff that I own and fortunately, I like to look at my stuff - even when it's packed away. I'll just take a packed away box & open it up