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<p>[QUOTE="krispy, post: 1476981, member: 19065"]Take off the rose-tinted glasses and learn how to count... The 11 notes you cite were not sold for <u>anywhere near,</u> "half a million dollars". That's $500,000 in case you can't visualize numbers. Those notes sold in the range of $10,001 to $100,000. A far cry in value from half a million and if you look at those notes, you will see that their rarity and/or rarity for their grades, has a lot more to do with the prices achieved than the <i>'desirability'</i> of "natural paper wave".</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, I can see through HA's marketing speak. Heritage employs it to sell notes. Please show me a hobby grading standard that includes the term "natural paper wave" and which speaks about it as favorably as does a Heritage item description. It's not something HA works into auction titles. We don't see that term used as a key word by collectors seeking it out. Even the OP of this thread thought it may negatively impact the grade and as well, possibly, the value of his note.</p><p><br /></p><p>Try again vibr0nic...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I didn't conveniently leave out notes[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="krispy, post: 1476981, member: 19065"]Take off the rose-tinted glasses and learn how to count... The 11 notes you cite were not sold for [U]anywhere near,[/U] "half a million dollars". That's $500,000 in case you can't visualize numbers. Those notes sold in the range of $10,001 to $100,000. A far cry in value from half a million and if you look at those notes, you will see that their rarity and/or rarity for their grades, has a lot more to do with the prices achieved than the [I]'desirability'[/I] of "natural paper wave". Yes, I can see through HA's marketing speak. Heritage employs it to sell notes. Please show me a hobby grading standard that includes the term "natural paper wave" and which speaks about it as favorably as does a Heritage item description. It's not something HA works into auction titles. We don't see that term used as a key word by collectors seeking it out. Even the OP of this thread thought it may negatively impact the grade and as well, possibly, the value of his note. Try again vibr0nic...:rolleyes: I didn't conveniently leave out notes[/QUOTE]
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