The Value of Vintage Toys

My friend Mary and her family had an estate sale in the North End.  They were clearing out the family home that her mother had been in for probably 50 + years.  It was a big sale and her family are not experienced garage salers.  They tried really hard, but in the end, the one thing that wasn't marked with a price sticker were three naked GI Joes from the sixties.  They had looked the value up on the internet and they could go for 40-100 dollars each.  They had decided to go high, because if they didn't get a buyer, they would be light and easy to send cross country if they sold them on e-bay.  For some reason, after their research and discussion, they just hadn't marked them.  Mary's family members were each assigned a room or area to be in charge of that day.  The first guy through the door made a beeline for the vintage toys.  He asked the nephew how much the GI Joes were and he had said "a quarter".  So before they had been open for 2 minutes, they sold all three for 75 cents, and lost about $300.  Pretty funny.