I bet the sale of "Hess" petro to Marathon in 014, eventually drives the asking prices of those trucks, perhaps? One thing I've long noticed from the hobby of collecting anything, is when the economy is bad, so is any hobby as far as selling anything. but as a hobbyist, that too, doesn't matter. I've never really sold much of anything, rather use it all for trade bait; and/or to hand it down to my kids kids.
5% isn't bad service charge. Wonder if graders would take 25% cut on total value from 10 shoe boxes worth of old cards.