Within the past month on ebay, I have seen:
a Speedform 3500 sell for $395
a Ti//Zdp Leek sell for $325
a Ti/Zdp Leek sell for $300
a Random Task sold for $295
A 0560 CBCF just sold today for $500.
..................even TiLT SW's selling for less than $500
So, when I say that a Ti Mini Cyclone selling for $525 is ridiculous, I've got a good bit of reasonable evidence to base it on.
Yeah, the tard comment is not necessarily warranted, but it was more directed at people like the guy who had the Ti/Leek up for sale and made all the dumbass comments about it, or the guy who has a semi-rare knife that someone told him is kinda rare, and he puts it up on the bay for hundreds of dollars more than it is worth, doesn't want to listen to logic about what it is actually worth, and then doesn't end up selling, over and over as they relist the item at a ludicrously high price.
So, no offense to that particular individual. The selling price for an item is surely what people will pay for it. So, I agree with you there kershawguy. I collect and keep knives nice, and if I do sell them, I would want to sell them for what they are worth, but as you said, you would buy them at $300 all day and sell them for $400..........you wouldn't buy them at $525 and wouldn't sell them at $525. Why? Because it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense, in either instance.
Maybe I should have said anything about the seller, and instead indicated that someone paying $525 for a knife that, while not easily available, can be found for $300, is the actual person with the issue.