This may not be the case here, but I have heard where people who do live storage auctions and do the online auctions have figured out each others "handle" or buyer name and have taken to running each other up on the online auctions when they recognize each other as being the current high bidder.

I once shipped a motorcycle helmet to Tasmania, Australia. About 9,500 miles as the crow flies.

I also once shipped some porn to Bagram Air Force Base Afghanistan. I always wondered if it was used to lift the spirits of the American serviceman or to torture them Taliban types. 

Oh, forgot to mention crowd size. Crowd size is pretty much back to pre-auction show normals. The only exceptions are Saturday auctions, auctions at a facility selling 40 or more units, auctions at new locations or locations who rarely have auctions. Then it's back to the madness! 

I have found plenty of those Roman, Greek, Byzantine coins that are plus or minus 500 years the birth of Christ. Not sure that really counts since most of those being sold in catalogs or coin stores were dug out of the ground in the last 50 years. Not like they are family heirlooms passed down for generations.

I'll let you know when I start making a profit! 

Seriously, it's only bad karma if you believe it is. You can pretty much psycho analyze any human endeavor and break it down into an imperfect, un-harmonious action. Is it bad karma to pump black sludge out of the ground and burn it? Is it bad karma to bulldoze forests to build houses? Is it bad karma to cut down that two year old steer in the prime of his life and stick his a$$ between two sesame seed buns?

I found some sports memorabilia that was autographed so I visited these collectors to see if they could authenticate it or just buy it. Anyway I went to their warehouse, 4 floors high. I didn't get the grand tour but I saw the first floor and it was pallets upon pallets with 4' x 4' cardboard bins filled with sports cards. Sports cards were spilling over on the floor, getting moldy and water damaged from sitting so long without being moved. I would estimate the first floor was probably 15,000 to 20,000 square feet. These guys go through many (can't remember how many but A LOT) of these bins per month, each bin holds like 5,000 cards. They said they find a couple hundred cards a month good enough for Ebay. I didn't ask what the criteria for selling on Ebay was, I'm thinking $25-$50 minimum. Since seeing that operation it really took the wind out of my sails as far as getting excited about finding a card collection. These guys destroy more cards in one week then I will find in a lifetime. They didn't tell me how they manage to source so many cards each week/month. Trade secret.

You find a collector and sell to him for cash only. Then every so often deposit 9,900 dollars in your account until it's all been deposited. You can speed up the process by depositing into several different accounts.

That won't work, it will still set of a fraudulent activity report by the bank. Yes, they are only required to notify GOV deposits over $10,000 but there are a multitude of activities that are considered suspicious and could trigger an investigation.