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<blockquote data-quote="Jonathan" data-source="post: 237749" data-attributes="member: 17183">No I can't explain, and I don't want to.&nbsp; That is all a purely subjective assessment that is a complete and utter waste of my limited energy to discuss.&nbsp; The worth that a human decides to place on a product is entirely their call and I have better things to do than to discuss it in the abstract.&nbsp; What I do know, because I spend time in these circles, is that nothing has any monetary value until it has been bought.&nbsp; Thus, if your family had owned, since it was painted, a Vermeer and it had, therefore, never been valued (i.e. bought and sold) it would command no real price whatsoever (but an implied price, yes) until its real market value is established following its sale and purchase.This unending debate about nothing is why I refuse to get sucked into typed debates.&nbsp; Face-to-face, by all means, but it is impossible to judge what is truly being posited in a two dimensional world such as this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jonathan, post: 237749, member: 17183"] No I can't explain, and I don't want to. That is all a purely subjective assessment that is a complete and utter waste of my limited energy to discuss. The worth that a human decides to place on a product is entirely their call and I have better things to do than to discuss it in the abstract. What I do know, because I spend time in these circles, is that nothing has any monetary value until it has been bought. Thus, if your family had owned, since it was painted, a Vermeer and it had, therefore, never been valued (i.e. bought and sold) it would command no real price whatsoever (but an implied price, yes) until its real market value is established following its sale and purchase. This unending debate about nothing is why I refuse to get sucked into typed debates. Face-to-face, by all means, but it is impossible to judge what is truly being posited in a two dimensional world such as this. [/QUOTE]

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