Plus bustermonty, you better pray when this market eventually falls off a cliff, like it will no doubt do at some point. You arnt stuck with 500,000 dollars invested in a bunch of signs you cant get 90,000 for. Which to me is why you cant really hate on them for what they are doing. They are gettin it while the gettin is good. All at the risk of getting stuck with a huge loss. Collectibles are not something most savvy investors would depend on and feel secure being tied up in. No money manager is telling anyone to go buy a bunch of petroliana as an investment.