Where Buyer Meets Seller

And a corollary to the essay I'm about to write, in a more poetic way, is that one man's trash is another's treasure. But few of us have the time to search through the trash to find the treasure we want. Which is how it must be that Pottery Barn can charge $1,299 for the same thing we got for free from Jason's sister. And she probably paid less than $50 for it.

Ours:(A dark photo since I didn't have a professional photographer and studio, just my living room.)

Theirs: And what's even crazier is that ours is likely genuine, and theirs is a mass-produced fake.

So does anyone want to buy a trunk for $1,000?