A few more words about Collectible Exchange.

CE is a broker. Sellers who wish to sell Harbour Lights (and some other lines) call CE and list what they have and set a price they want to get. Collectible Exchange adds a percentage (20% I think) and prices the item on their listings including the commission.

Until Collectible Exchange gets a call from a buyer, the actual piece is back with the seller. To close a deal, the seller ships it to Collectible Exchange who inspect it and the buyer sends payment. If the piece passes inspection, the seller gets paid and the buyer gets the piece.

That may mean it could take a week or two before the buyer receives the piece or the seller gets paid.

Sellers can set whatever price they want. Diamond Head for $1,250, for example.

There is no way to know from the CE listing if this is something special worth hundreds more or not. But sometimes a seller puts a high price on one of the items they are listing at CE in order to be able to 'point out' that Diamond Head is 'selling for up to $1,250'.

Until a seller 'de-lists' an item, it stays on the CE list. It may be that the seller sold it somewhere else or they have decided NOT to sell it afterall.

The lowest price one may be sold. Since this list is updated frequently, you can print the list out each week and compare pieces available. You might see the list go from 15 Fort Niagara to 9 over a month. And you may be able to tell which ones (by price) are no longer on the list. Can you derive then that Fort Niagara is 'hot' because 6 sold in 30 days? Maybe, maybe not.

To use the listings as a guide, I discard the lowest and highest price ones and use the range of what's in the middle.