It would be laughable if he wasn't serious.

How can you seriously ask that sort of money for something like that?  Is there more to it, am I missing something?

The asking prices of machines on Gumtree are way over the top as well.  I expect people to ask a bit more and then have room to move, I do it myself but bugger me.

wouldn't it be nice if people, shops etc just put the real, fair price. Why do we need to bargain? I do it but that's because no prices are real  so I contribute to the problem