Some people have too much money. That card couldn't be designed any uglier. I know that's not the point, but still, you'd think the best cards would be particularly nice.
I can't say I'm innocent of similar splurging though, as I wasted a lot of cash when the Vince Carter hype was at its peak trying to secure one of his rookie cards. After buying some of the cheaper singles, I bought a couple of boxes of the sets that had the ones I wanted and came up empty. Of course, it's all worthless now... these two were my most sought-after VC rookies:
At the time, they went for $40-50 US. Now, they're going for $2-5 on eBay. Lesson learned
Edit: LOL, gem mint professionally graded card for $19 buy-it-now. In '00 that would've gone for $200+ easily.
Sigh...
Edit #2: This one was really nice too: