Personally, I'm looking for a good (great) deal just like everyone else. I'm on CL a lot and frequently see things I think are killer deals, but don't have the bux to buy every thing I see, nor the place to keep them if I did. I also frequent an antique/collectible firearms forum and stories are rampant about widows wanting to sell off their husbands collections, and I don't see anything wrong with, and in fact there is an admirable quality to, informing them of current market values, as usually in those cases, the objects in question were collected to be a sort of "retirement fund". However, if someone is posting on CL or ebay, it is obvious they are either trying to sell to make a profit, or liquidate assets, and in this day and age, if you don't research current market values of what you want to sell BEFORE YOU TRY TO SELL IT, you are foolish, and there is certainly nothing wrong with someone paying you your asking price with no regrets. In this case, the seller says her husband just wanted to see it go to someone who would care for it and enjoy having it, THAT was the "value" of the merchandise they were seeking, not the financial aspect that is being debated now. Obviously, now that they (maybe) know "what it's worth", why not try to get as much as possible? But "what it's worth" is NOT what they were asking for initially....and a broke guy like me who might have been able to afford the initial asking price and would have given it a loving well cared for home, is "priced out of the market". No regrets, there are tons of other things I can't afford either, but I'm just saying, if I had been in the right place at the right time and bought it for the original asking price, it would not have been due to some deep seated sinister need to "rip off a fool". I don't know it's "value" any more than anyone else here, and would not have been concerned with it originally anyway, all I'm seeing is another cool looking bike. Drawing on another aspect of the collectible arms market (any "collectible" item actually), there are weapons with sufficient value that there is a large group of people who "fake" such items and sell to unsuspecting buyers. Without provenance, this bike is just another bike with a fairing and some cool accessories, and of no more value than any other similarly dressed bike, further, if in fact, there is no such thing as an "Imola" racer (even if there is), and you sell it as such (without provenance), you are as guilty of selling a lie as the person who "faked" it. If you truly want to get the monetary value out of anything you are trying to sell, or are concerned about honestly representing what you are trying to sell and don't research the market FIRST, yes, you are foolish. Best Wishes....
