Do the words "Fire Sale" mean anything to Crazy Aunt? OF COURSE you're not going to get top dollar selling something quickly on an online auction site. If she wanted the full appraised value of the item, she would have been spending a lot more quality time with it before finding a buyer.

My parents have enough antique crap to fill a season of Antiques Roadshow, but if they had to get rid of it all in an estate sale tomorrow, they'd be lucky to get 50 cents on the dollar for most of it and not quite as lucky for the rest. It's called a fact of life and it's how antique stores get their hands on all of this old stuff in the first place before jacking up the price beyond the appraised value and letting it SIT IN THEIR SHOWROOM FOR ***YEARS*** UNTIL SOMEONE BUYS IT.

Seriously Broad, someone needs to beat most of the members of your family with the Reality Stick. It's similar to the Ugly Stick, but has higher pain potential.

Here's your sign,
Dix

Bummmer, broad. A good lesson learned, though, huh?

Greed perhaps?

Even if something appraises for 2k, does not mean that you are EVER going to get it.

My engagement ring appraised for over 7k, but when i took it to a jeweler for a trade-in, they told me that they'd give me 800 for it.