What would you do? Bartee bottle Cordele GA

[3emarketeers]

I have an old Cordele GA Bartee Bottle on auction on ebay--that ends tomorrow night. It is currently selling at about $12 bucks. Someone just offered me $50.00 to end the auction early and sell it to him. I couldn't find any info about Bartee. Someone told me it was a local bottling company. Just want your opinions, would you end the auction early and sell it to him or just let the auction run its course. It has 7 watchers.
Thanks

Here's a link to the auction
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=012&item=220023748814

 

[woody]

Have the person who wants it bid $50, maximum bid on it and see what happens.
Why sell it for less than it might go on eBay.

 

[annie44]

I would let the auction run its course, to be fair to the other bidders/interested buyers. Most people are going to bid in the last few minutes. If he really wants it, he can put in a high bid and hope he wins.

 

[capsoda]

Ditto!

 

[3emarketeers]

Thanks yall,
I knew you would all say the right thing. The owner of the bottle is out of town, so I could not ask him. His wife thought $50 was a good price, but I agreed with Annie44 that it was not fair to the other bidders/watchers. So she suggested that since we got so much info from all you here on this site--why not ask all yall. We decided to go with the majority out of the first 5 response. There were 3 posts here and I got 2 emails all in favor of continuing the auction. Thanks again!

 

[annie44]

Looks like you did pretty good - more than twice what you were offered to end the auction early!

 

[ALBOTTLEDIGGER]

That was great!!! Always wait it out!! If someone offers you an amout that normaly means that it is worth more!!! Good call everybody!!!

 

[3emarketeers]

whoo hoo $104.00 I just cant believe how much a bottle can go for. I am amazed to get more than $20.00 for a bottle I couldn't imagine some of the bottles you guys have worth thousands. Who knows maybe I'll get lucky and find a really rare one. It's really weird because when I was first given all these bottles to sell, I was thinking "they are just bottles, who cares" Now I find myself looking at them, carefully trying to clean them and even sometimes I think "wow, that's a really neat one, I'm gonna keep it" I have even moved some of my Disney items out of my store so I can put neat looking bottles on Display. Lord help me!

Thanks everyone for all the help you've given me!
Angela

 

[capsoda]

Way to hold your nerve Angela. You done good.[]

 

[cc6pack]

Angela,

Beware once the bottle bug bites there is no known cure, I think that's why so many collect Cures[]