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<p>[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 8324142, member: 84905"]No, not really. For somebody dying of thirst it is absolutely not wrong to pay 1000 dollars for a bottle of water. If the bottle saves his live there is nothing bizzare about paying that much.</p><p><br /></p><p>People have different budgets and different preferences. If a buyer wants the coin (the exact coin at this exact moment in time) and if he values it more than owing 3000 dollars his purchase is not wrong, in fact, he may justly regard it as a great bargain (compared to his own budget and preferences - maybe he needed it now, not next year or at the next auction).</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't want to belabor the point, but I don't get your difference between a "really good deal" and "not a bad deal". Everybody want the best possible deal, but the measure is your own means and preferences, not somebody elses means and preferences and not some hypothetical historical average price.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 8324142, member: 84905"]No, not really. For somebody dying of thirst it is absolutely not wrong to pay 1000 dollars for a bottle of water. If the bottle saves his live there is nothing bizzare about paying that much. People have different budgets and different preferences. If a buyer wants the coin (the exact coin at this exact moment in time) and if he values it more than owing 3000 dollars his purchase is not wrong, in fact, he may justly regard it as a great bargain (compared to his own budget and preferences - maybe he needed it now, not next year or at the next auction). I don't want to belabor the point, but I don't get your difference between a "really good deal" and "not a bad deal". Everybody want the best possible deal, but the measure is your own means and preferences, not somebody elses means and preferences and not some hypothetical historical average price.[/QUOTE]
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