Why In Blazes Did This Collection Go Over $2,000???

It does to you. In your frame of reference. You have to step out of that frame of reference. It is not foolish, or overpaying, to them.

Just because they don't think so does not change the fact that it is. It just means that they either don't know or don't care.

May I say that, if there's a redhead of a certain age who's offering a $500 dinner in London, I'm available most weekends ...

Look out that you don't get Beaker. :-)

We'll have to agree to disagree. You appear to think that there is a single objectively correct price (or range) for a stamp collection, that the buyer ought to know or care about, whereas I see all pricing as necessarily subjective and flexible based on the buyer's perception of value. I guess in that sense we can agree that certain buyers "don't care" about the "correct" price that you believe to exist.

I agree with cjpalermo on this one. As I see it, Big Blue album collectors are a bit of a "cult"; that is the goal of "filling" the 34,500 space WW album is fun, a pleasure, and a hobby, not judged by strict catalogue standards.

This is not simply about "catalog standards". This is about the fact that these are lots filled with common stamps in mediocre condition and that there are many hundreds of similar lots sold every year for far less money. Just as people are free to spend as much as they like on whatever they like, the rest of us are free to understand that the purchase was a poor one. I hope the buyers are happy because I'm sure they made the sellers very happy.

Rev collector---with all due respect, why not let it go?

Perhaps because I see large lots every day and know that for the same money either collector might have purchased a much nicer lot.

Whether the price here was ridiculous or not, there are definitely not hundreds of Big Blue revenue pages, complete, sold each year, which is the whole point.

Given how incomplete they are in terms of spaces, I get it even less.

It appears that the same person won both lots. So money don't seem to be a problem here.

Some people are willing to pay more for presentation than what is presented, I guess.

The 67th Annual Big Blue Album Page Completion Invitational. Winner receives bragging rights.

Sure, why not? It seems dumb as heck to me, but who am I to judge what makes others happy? Most people think that collecting little bits of 150-year-old paper is lunacy to begin with.

"Most people think that collecting little bits of 150-year-old paper is lunacy to begin with."

Yeah, but what do they know.................

No one is asking for my two pfennigs worth, but I personally admire and perhaps buy the painting, and I don't care so much about the frame that holds said painting.

Jim