When you look for items on eBay after your first search... if you look at the list on the far left side of the screen .... look toward the bottom of the list .... it says to look for “COMPLETED ITEMS ONLY”.
That is a list of items that have sold.
So the item is worth about $99.00.
Our local Goodwill stopped taking them over a year ago. You need to buy a $29 permit just to put them out for the trash to pick up. Probably something similar in play here. She was probably happy to save whatever the fee was in California.