Many shotgun brokers, this ebay seller included, choose to troll for uninformed customers, hoping for the big payoff. While I detest the practice, it is rather widespread in the gun, car, doctoring, and other businesses that we feel are part of everyday life. Shame on the newby to the shotgun buying hobby who doesn't do his homework. It brings back memories of a friend with a not too badly worn GH Damascus Parker at a time when such a gun was approaching $300 in value. He was wandering up the aisle of a bad gun show when he stopped at a table displaying a boxed 303 Merkel. A young man of apparent Middle Eastern descent sitting at the table commented on the Parker's fairly high condition. He expressed the desire to some day own such a gun. At the end of a not too involved conversation, my friend walked away with the 303 with no apparent outlay of cash, but minus the $300 (maybe $400) Parker. The young man had come upon the Merkel from his father who was apparently gifted the gun while serving as a Diplomat of sorts in some Asian country. Obviously he did not do his homework.
