Game Used Cork (Champagne)

[Swoboda4]

So technically we can start a hearty discussion on this item?
http://cgi.ebay.com/N-Y-METS-GAME-USED-2006-CHAMPAGNE-CORK-/120582804841?cmd=ViewItem&pt=US_Baseball_Fan_Shop&hash=item1c134b9569

Aren't corks suppose to expand when they're popped out of charged bottles? I submit this this is a game issued,and not used cork. Notice the lack of expansion marks........ (For the few who hadn't had their coffee yet I'm kidding)
And marked down from $111 dollars,just in time for Father's Day. If this seller is a Forum member I propose a motion to throw him out unceremoniously,does anyone second the motion...?
http://s104.photobucket.com/albums/m175/champions_on_display/dropship/SportsImages/GU06NLCSNYMCORK.jpg

[metsbats]

Last year a 2006 NLDS used champagne bottle only went for around $25 on a Steiner on-line auction which will make this one expensive cork.

[Swoboda4]

How do you display this without friends totally giving up on your sanity? The next question is always,how much did you pay for it? Once you answer that on this item, you have to know they walk out of the display room thinking,"He's out of his cork sucking mind." They would quietly believe you're functionally insane.
Is there any other hobby that offers inane peripheral nonsense to serious collectors? Do serious art collectors show auction interest in brush cleaning supplies? Do coin collectors display disgarded refuse from the Philadelphia mint? No,just us.

[David]

My neighbor is a retired forensic cork examiner for the ATF and co-wrote the cork collector's price guide and he says that's a cork to the bottom of a pepper shaker.

[David]

Damn, my joke would have been better if I had said "a special type of cork used by vets during bovine colon surgery."

[trsent]

So technically we can start a hearty discussion on this item?
http://cgi.ebay.com/N-Y-METS-GAME-USED-2006-CHAMPAGNE-CORK-/120582804841?cmd=ViewItem&pt=US_Baseball_Fan_Shop&hash=item1c134b9569

Aren't corks suppose to expand when they're popped out of charged bottles? I submit this this is a game issued,and not used cork. Notice the lack of expansion marks........ (For the few who hadn't had their coffee yet I'm kidding)
And marked down from $111 dollars,just in time for Father's Day. If this seller is a Forum member I propose a motion to throw him out unceremoniously,does anyone second the motion...?


So, my listing looks reasonable, correct?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=50117&item=230467295274

[TNTtoys]

Last year a 2006 NLDS used champagne bottle only went for around $25 on a Steiner on-line auction which will make this one expensive cork.

My thoughts exactly. Last I looked, there was a 2006 NLCS bottle from the celebration on ebay for $50.00 (with free shipping). Given the care involved to ship glass, based on this listing alone, the bottle would be worth in the ballpark of $35-40. A $75-110.00 cork is just obscene.

[Zachlaka]

I bought two champagne bottles off of MLB auctions last year from the Brewers 2008 Wild Card clinhing post game celebration. If it wasn't for a bidding war on the first one I would of had both of them for $50 each as it is I only paid $150 for both.

A few other bottles didn't sell the first time up but only the first one went for more than $100 :)