Welcome to the forums B.R.

Joanne, I have to disagree with you, B.R. has not cornered the market. And I find it hard to call a price paid at auction "price gouging" since the buyer has set the price. Maybe the buyer(s) are not aware that the piece is still available at retail, maybe they are willing to spend the extra money for the convience of not spending an hour on the phone calling dealers around the country. But it is a free market and B.R. also risks not selling the piece (all though small in this case) at a profit and loosing money at the same time. And it is free enterprise that has built this country.

Mark