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Originally Posted by Bagpuss
It's got to the point where sellers I'm sure have had the nod that silly money is available and I suspect are bidding up badges themselves.
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i'd be giving the game away if I said on here that I was willing to bid up to £xx so I won't say one way or another if I still intend to bid. It is suspicious how the bidding went up to just above what I had bid and then had a bid retracted, not long before you pointed it out.
The first badge has gone to an unkown bidder who may or not be part of the Stanley family - we'll never know. I do however know of the existence of several of those badges so it didn't interest me. The other one I only know of two people who have this badge and I also know what its purported resale value is. Part of the remit for the OSC and its exhibition is to gather together items of value (not just financial) for the benefit and enjoyment of the collective. This badge comes into that category. As previously offered Bagpuss I would probably offer you first refusal on buying it, at the price it takes to secure it, should the OSC want to cash in on an asset.
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Originally Posted by Bagpuss
The OSC has now alienated the small collectors to the point .....
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well I did conced on at least two earlier this week in lieu of you and Jeff thinking it was an abuse or whatever....... and one of them was won by you and it is one you already have.