[Rick Lee]

Nothing at all wrong with flipping. But to tell someone who doesn't know any better that something is worth way less, then you turn around and flip it for way more, well, that sort of shows you to be a liar.

When I was landscaping in college, an elderly customer knew I played in a band and asked me to take a look at an old Gibson acoustic. It had to be from the 1940s and was in perfect condition. I probably could have had it for mowing his lawn for free. I had no use for it. Had I taken it for a song and then flipped it for a fortune, I think that might have been unethical.

My dad had a friend in college who asked him to clean up a filthy 1866 Winchester .44 carbine he had found when cleaning out his deceased father's basement. He then just told my dad to keep it. It hung on our living room wall until about 10 yrs. ago. My dad asked me to sell it for him and I got $6500 for it. Should he have tracked down that old college friend and given him all or some of the money?