The article pretty much answers the question. This is part of the price discovery process in the extreme high end of what's basically a new market. There's a gr

The article pretty much answers the question. This is part of the price discovery process in the extreme high end of what's basically a new market. There's a grader and an auction house that are relatively new developments in this market, and that makes big money collectors comfortable coming into what to this point had been much less formalized. It's not the first time this has happened in a collectibles market, and it won't be the last.