[Steve_Seattle]

Well, isn't it common for the owners of antique shops to find bargains and then sell them at whatever mark-up they think they can get? She bought the item fair and square, and if someone was willing to pay $200 bucks for it, that's their decision.

It's not like she swindled an old lady by paying peanuts for an item she knew to be very valuable. That would be a different story.

[21twelve]

“It’s not like she swindled an old lady by paying peanuts for an item she knew to be very valuable.”

I knew an old guy and the antique store guy saw the old fishing poles he had piled up in the corner and wondered if he could by them. My friend said “How about a trade for that coat rack I saw in your store?”

Deal.

I have no idea what the coat rack was worth. But the pile of old fishing poles included several split bamboo fly rods that were his father’s, dating back to the early 1900’s I’m guessing.

I didn’t have the heart to tell my friend he probably got ripped off.