Our periodic gunshow has a couple vendors like that - they think their crusty old milsurps are all "collector's items" and price them accordingly.
My buddies and I call them the "Rolling Antique Arms Museum"........
Another vendor prices his guns properly - uses the Gun Value books as a guide, tempered by rarity and demand. I have bought several guns from him, and have never been displeased. He had one Spanish Mauser once he had not seen before - so new he hadn't yet researched it. I already had one, and knew the going average price, and helped him determine a fair sales price. He's the rare 'honest' gunshow vendor I have met. Always has something interesting for me to look at too - he knows what like......
