I have bought several seedlings on the auction and have sold many more on the auction to help pay for this addiction I have. For me its a money thing, buying or selling. When I buy one of those high dollar seedlings I make sure I get all of it, I can use it, then resell it after it increases and get most of my money back if not all. When selling my own seedlings for $20, thats as much as I can get for those high priced registered plants a lot of times.
I think I mentioned this before, the last seedling I got on the auction was like winning the lotto. It put my eye and edge program ahead several years, I have not bid on one in two years because I think I already have the best, many of the dark eyes and edges you have seen this year are from that seedling. This year I used it's babies pollen more than anything else. Sometimes you get lucky.