I don't think this is what's happening, but I think this is the model. I have a super Mario cartridge. I also have a lot of drugs (or whatever) that I'd like t

I don't think this is what's happening, but I think this is the model. I have a super Mario cartridge. I also have a lot of drugs (or whatever) that I'd like to sell, but I don't have a distribution network, so I have to sell at a wholesale price. I put up the proxy object for auction. You bid far more than we think anyone would pay for the proxy object, and you win. We've made separate arrangements for the drugs (or whatever) so you already have them, or will get them soon. Now I have a pocket full of legitimate cash. I think there's some biases stuck in American minds about Al Capone. He was a bad guy that did lots of illegal things. But his downfall was tax evasion. This approach gives me a reasonable explanation for all that money, and I can pay taxes on it, so I _appear_ to be an upstanding member of society.