Last weekend my wife brought home a circa 1930 side table from a garage sale.
Me: Okay, what did it cost?
Her: Only $75!
Me: Did you dicker it down from $150?
Her: No, the tag said $75.
Me: (rolling eyes) Okay, maybe we can sell it for $50 at our garage sale.....
So I got to looking at this table. Very ornate legs and lions paw feet made of mahogany. It had a makers metal tag on the bottom, IRWIN, and it had some numbers hand written, probably the model, stain, etc.
Anyway, I found the exact table on eBay and they are asking $1750! When I showed the ad to my wife, she did about 20 "told ya so's". I had to explain to her that the table on eBay hasn't sold for that price and we could list ours for $5,000 and it doesn't make it worth that price.
Still, she did good. The table looks fantastic in our front room. Here's the ebay ad I found....
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=270219917894&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=017