In the end, all the commotion was a bunch of nonsense. As I predicted several times, the first bidder - who bid one day before I mentioned it on APF - put an enormous $4,500 bid on it, so you had to bid $4,550 just to get into the game. Furthermore, all the seller's Bond posters have boatloads of watchers and bids. So there never a chance this was ever going to be a "bargain."
Of course, my "fans" will claim my prognostication was "lucky." Not so. Under the circumstances, it was very clear early on in the game it was going to be fought over and go to fair market value. To wit:
(1) There were three bidders
(2) There were two $1,000+ bids
(3) One of the $1,000+ bids was from a 10,000+ feedback bidder (probably a dealer)
(4) Bond posters always get lots of attention on Ebay
(5) This particular seller is selling several high value Bond posters at once, making it extremely unlikely that all or one of them would escape notice.
(6) Most serious Bond collectors will instantly recognize the Irish quad and know its true value.