You Probably Bought That Baseball Card From Rick Probstein

I assume the people who arrive at the headquarters of Probstein123, eBay’s largest dealer of sports cards and other hot collectibles, aren’t allowed all that far past the threshold, and thus have an incomplete sense of what the operation really is. They drop off their consignment items, pick up some paperwork, and then hope the market favors them. Maybe they see the long rack of jerseys near the entrance, and wonder how many of them are autographed or game-worn, and maybe they glimpse the backroom, where a hive of assistants prepare the human race’s recent cultural residue for shipment.