Now now Bob, don't give em any ideas here, geeze look at how much prices have inflated in the last decade, lets not make it any harder to complete a rod!
Seriously though, I was at a garage sale looking at some stuff the owner had put out, and asked the price of an old lamp missing the shade with a spliced cord, wrapped in electric tape, we bartered and he went for the price I offered, but right next to it was a beat up old cast iron bell with rust on it that he was calling an antique and asking an outrageous sum for, on close examination it was cheap Chinese junk that he had left out side in the rain for a few seasons to rust, but he was betting the "Patina" would cause people to bite and consider it an antique!