My folly I suppose in asking for your perspective
no, it isn't folly to ask, only to be idiotic when asking
first of all, your characterization that I only agree with Sean is childish at best.
concerning the rest, it isn't wrong for you to discuss things about the hobby, but there is no reason for you to be so dismissive of something a money man is doing and it's wrong to piss on Doug and his actions, which is exactly what you are doing.
it's like this with some of you guys:
Heritage must be doing something wrong on the poster that sold for 1/2 price elsewhere, even though there is no evidence of any wrongdoing what-so-ever.
the newbie buying posters are well over the going rate for Fight Club and Cannonball Run must be nuts and of course we forget we were talking to him just yesterday too.
Doug Taylor must be nuts for trying to make a profit on a rare poster.
for what reason would someone want to join a group with those attitudes?
has pokerplayr posted here again since he was savaged by the same people who were friendly 3 days earlier? ask yourself why.
Doug Taylor reads this forum from time to time and I believe he has posted, though it goes way back, why would he want to engage you after your post which makes him seem greedy or stupid?
you can talk about these things without pissing on people.. and that would make the forum more useful to some of those
who could become members if they felt they wouldn't be treated like pokerplayr and Doug.
Sean by the way was spot on. I believe Doug already owns another copy of this poster and believes (correctly) that such a poster could be a profitable purchase if he can find a good buyer. Same goes for all the people who will buy 1000 sub-$10 posters at some auctions to list on ebay or 10 $500 on ebay they can list in their retail stores and by the way, it was one of the points you failed to understand when I posted the differences between here and the CGC boards
what YOU perceive as the rightful price of something (to you it's auction prices only) has absolutely nothing to do with the reality of most posters that sell in this hobby which is way greater as an aggregate number than both of the big auctions annual total. Most posters being sold at one auction (by quantity) wind up for resale in other venues, at higher price than the auction achieves