I have been following, I can't get over these prices, a member who was there said it was Chinese investors/collectors buying them up. But as others have mentioned they are paying 2-3x for what they go for through a private collector/dealer. I can't understand, again as others have said, why they wouldn't just acquire one from a collector/dealer. Instead the buyer/s are spending way too much. Freddy, for 200-250k either one of us could contact Eric or one of the other super high end dealers and pick up a 6538 for example, just like the one sold today. It makes no sense to walk into an auction and pay that much more than the appx market price unless they are trying to manipulate the market using a very public setting