In these cases the seller just hopes that the buyer completes the deal. Of course now will be the time to go shopping for Edisonic reproducers for as you say this will smoke them out of the woodwork. Rich On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:43:15 -0500, Walt Sommers wrote: >eBay rarely seems to rarely reflect reality - it is a statistician's worst >nightmare because it is the very definition of "skewed data". Something like >this would never grow to such a price at Stanton's or some other *real* >auction (eBay is a venue...) Originally designed as a PEZ machine >marketplace, who would have ever figured you would see something like that >$12,000-plus Amet that popped up a few years ago and a seller had ZERO clue >what he even was selling. >It seems like what often happens after things like this is that everybody >and his brother lists theirs on eBay to cash in on someone else's good >fortune and then by the 3rd or 4th one, the price shrinks back to something >more fathomable as touching some sense of realism. Then it goes cold for a >year or two and happens again. Didn't this occur fairly recently with some >late Edison DDs or BAs? And now the prices have cooled back down (and half >the people wish they would have kept them after it is all said and done >anyway). >I agree - it is exciting to watch (particularly if it is me that is the >seller). >W