Featured Curtains - I hate to undercut another seller, but this is ridiculous

In the 90s I bought a $3 Deruta Italian chicken pitcher at a yard sale. Small size, perfect condition, adorable but nothing special. Typical tourist 70s-80s piece. Tons of them around and the larger ones were only going for about $50 at Williams Sonoma new (IMO few are pricier than WS) at that time. A friend listed it for me and I think started it at $20. It closed at over $300.

I was shocked and their response was that there was obviously something very special about that pitcher that I didn’t know. Nope. Two idiots placed high nuclear bids thinking no one else would do the same. Luck for me, the winner was honorable and paid. I still can’t believe they bought that piece for that price. My friend to this day jokes about it and thinks it was some rare museum piece. I’m staring at 3 large chicken pitchers in my kitchen as I type so I know what I had.

People can be crazy and get a thing in their heads that they just “have to have it”. Then there are those who choose to assign a specific price to a widget from their own heads without documented value. It’s their call. They pick a wild number to justify selling the item. All they need out of billions of people is one buyer and there will always be those that have tons of disposable cash and want a specific item and don’t care what it costs.

Anyone can search completed listings to get a selling range but that doesn’t mean that a specific piece won’t sell way above that range even if others are listed at the same time.

 

We could all use one of those pitchers.

 

If you look at the original price of $375 that's still stuck on the package (last photo on the left), then the buyer is getting a $10 discount!! I looked on WP and the only panels getting that much money was the antique ones hand made in France or Belgium.

 

Just curious... did you ever list these curtains? How did it go, if you did?

 

That’s why I always list after young children’s bed time, after parents have had a glass of wine but before they have passed out on the sofa!. So UK 8.30/9pm is usually good for bidding wars.
Is that selling with integrity?

 

No one's forcing people to stress-bid! (LOL)