WOMAN’S KAYAK SOLD FOR $14,000 ON CRAIGSLIST
Teresa Yoon advertised her old kayak on Craigslist for $140. She mistyped the price. She typed $14,000. She went to bed without double-checking. The next morning, she received eleven emails. Not complaints, but offers. One collector asked if it was the high-end Kevlar racing model that was discontinued in 2006. Another wanted to know about the original rudder fin. Teresa searched for a faded logo on the kayak’s hull. She spent twenty minutes on kayak forums. Her stomach churned. Her father had bought it at a rummage sale in 1998 for sixty dollars. It was a Seda Glider prototype—one of nine ever built. He sold it for $16,200 to a museum in Duluth.