The owner of the item, Carterofmars, indicates he paid $10 for the piece, which was originally priced at $20. This means the seller paid something like $3 or $4 for the piece, if that. Sellers don't shave away at their profit margins, unless they paid very little originally. Quality Murano pieces would wholesale and retail for a lot more. Perhaps these are Murano canes sold in a lot by the tens of thousands and transported, but this is not a made-in-Murano item.
That's a reasonable assumption. But if as CoM says it was in a flea market. all bets are off in respect of that being a valid argument. The seller may or may not have known the intrinsic value, if any. Might well have got it for nothing, or less than nothing and $10 in the hand might have been an excellent result.
By less than nothing, I mean a number of possibilities. plenty of people who sell in flea markets are selling stuff from house clearances that they have been paid to undertake. Also lots of people buy auction mixed lots with a view to acquiring one piece that they want and then end up with several that have cost "nothing" Of course if you divide nothing by anything, you still get nothing! But, consider this...if you bought four items for £50 because there was one that you wanted and would have paid £100 for it then the other three cost nothing. Then if you sell one of them for £10, you have got the other two for less than nothing.
I apologise if I'm being obtuse. I really should be trying to find a hotel in Chicago which is rather difficult and certainly costs a lot more than nothing while SOFA is on!
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