Just keep saying to yourself:
AUCTION, it was an AUCTION...
Go to a live auction some time and watch people pay WAY more than what something is worth, because you have the 'he outbid me, daganbit' mentality,
and realize it is the same thing on-line.
I have sold a few things at on-line auction sites, and marvelled at the tripple-what-it-was-worth that someone would pay, and dimfounded at the openning
bid price that never went up, not one penny.
That is the nature of auctions, and that is why auctions are NOT a good way to judge what something is ACTUALY worth, just as the price someone paid a
few years back.
Heck, I once bought a BRAND NEW car WITH Air Conditioning for $3,411.08, off the lot! And gas was 35 cent a gallon...