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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lucille.b, post: 26940, member: 51&quot;]I&#039;ve heard this over and over.&nbsp; It can work in certain settings, but it always blows my mind that a logical well educated person does not understand that &quot;asking price&quot; means absolutely nothing.&nbsp; Only &quot;sold&quot; does. This is not rocket science, folks!&nbsp; Maybe it harkens back to people being used to B&amp;M retail settings. Take a car lot for example.&nbsp; A car might be over priced, but not by tens of thousands of dollars (usually).&nbsp; But on Ebay, the sky is the limit, maybe people are thinking -- wow, if it is listed at $2,000, it must be something close to that.&nbsp; I&#039;ll never forget there was a used amber necklace at a consignment store for $20.&nbsp; I got home and found the same one on Ebay (unsold) for $10K!&nbsp; I quickly did a lot of research, turns out $20 was about right.</p><p><br /></p><p>Speaking of consignment stores, we have one that prints and posts Ebay auctions of similar items they have on the floor. But they show the asking price, these are not completed auctions.&nbsp; Usually for things like LLadro.&nbsp; Every time I see a $500 Lladro auction posted I feel like they are insulting my intelligence, or worse, some shopper who doesn&#039;t understand Ebay will be mislead.</p><p><br /></p><p>Going back to my lawyer story, forgot to add, I insisted we donate the money.&nbsp; I was never planning to keep it, even from the get-go.&nbsp; But lesson learned.&nbsp; Even with a donated item... things may go south when selling for others.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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