Every price in our Auction History was paid, and in cash (no trades, layaways, re-negotiated prices, etc). If a sale fell through and the item was re-auctioned, then the result is removed. THIS is not at all true of any other database, so bear that in mind when "checking prices".
Do people pay more for some items in our auctions? Sometimes, absolutely! Two prime reasons are first that you know when buying from us there is no fear of a fake, or shipping damage or whatever, and second that you save massively on shipping. Say you buy ten posters from us for $25 each, or $250 for all. We charge $11 U.S. shipping, so $261 total, Say you could find those same ten posters from ten different eBay sellers for an average of $15 each, or $150 total. But if you pay $11 shipping to each of them, you pay $260 total, for a savings of $1! And when one tube arrives damaged, and some others were over-graded, and you spent ten times the work finding them and ordering, you might say "Forget it" the next time and bid higher with us.
Bruce
P.S. If any of you DO have a collection of titles like these (that includes the better ones) and you want to "cash in", just let me know! You won't do any work except getting them safely to us, and it will be YOU cackling over the great prices YOU got next time!