3. This Week's Stories   
      
   Every week we post stories and comments from our readers.  Send your story to   
   phil@Bignews.biz and I'll publish it in an upcoming newsletter.  Did you know   
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   Last week we asked: Grossly Under Priced: You see someone selling their things   
   because they need the money.  You spot several items that are way under   
   priced.  What is your obligation as a buyer, to a novice seller who is selling   
   an item way below market value?  What do you do?  We received this response   
   from Maya in NJ:   
      
   "In reference to seeing a person selling things for a lot less than their   
   value- My neighbor was having a garage sale.  I stopped by and noticed that   
   she was selling, what I thought to be, an unmarked RS Prussia bowl.  This was   
   about 10 years ago when Prussia was really going for good money.  She had the   
   piece marked as $2.50.  I thought, if it was RS Prussia, it was worth at least   
   $250.00 (if not more) and I told her.  She seemed kind of shocked that it   
   might be worth that much.  Before she had the chance to change the price, a   
   gentleman walked up and picked up the vase.  He looked at the price and said   
   "I'll take this".  My friend looked at me and without batting an eye she said   
   "I'm sorry, the tag was written incorrectly.  It is supposed to say $250.00   
   and not $2.50" The man didn't question her, he took out his wallet and paid   
   her $250 in cash.  We have no idea what the bowl was actually worth, and we   
   suspected it might have been worth even more since he didn't try and haggle   
   with her, but she got   
   $247.50 more than she would have and that was good enough for her.   
   Maya G."   
      
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