Re: Anybody want a *$600* SecondSight VGA Card from Ebay?

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <447B4059.6020601@spurgeon.net>,
Mike Spurgeon  <mike@spurgeon.net> wrote:

> Paul Schlyter wrote:
>> In article <447AA4CB.3080400@spurgeon.net>,
>> Mike Spurgeon  <mike@spurgeon.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> An item is worth exactly what a willing seller and a willing buyer agree on.
>> 
>> Well, that means that if I sold you a piece of brass, claiming it was
>> solid gold, and you trusted me and were willing to pay gold price for it,
>> then that piece of brass would be worth much more than other equivalent
>> pieces of brass?
>> 
>> Another example: if I sold my house for, say, $1,000,000 and if soon
>> after that sale another person popped up who would have been willing
>> to pay $2,000,000 for the same house - should I then say "No, it wasn't
>> worth more than $1,000,000" ???  After all, $1,000,000 was the price I
>> and the first buyer agreed on....
> 
> An item is worth exactly what a willing seller and a willing buyer agree on.

Well, that means that if I sold you a piece of brass, claiming it was
solid gold, and you trusted me and were willing to pay gold price for it,
then that piece of brass would be worth much more than other equivalent
pieces of brass?

Another example: if I sold my house for, say, $1,000,000 and if soon
after that sale another person popped up who would have been willing
to pay $2,000,000 for the same house - should I then say "No, it wasn't
worth more than $1,000,000" ???  After all, $1,000,000 was the price I
and the first buyer agreed on....

:-)

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