Hope springs eternal. People don't know the difference between retail and wholesale prices, or how much labor goes into a restoration to get a bike to the point where those prices they saw actually start to kick in. Often they overlook all the flaws, different models, and missing parts and equate their bike with the ones that are worth so much more. And people see something listed on ebay or craigslist and think that an asking price = selling price. Oftentimes those asking prices are just as unreasonable as what the bozo you are talking to is asking.

Like I said, Hope springs Eternal. All you can do is walk away. I don't like going to those: I've got 20 bikes I want to sell ads. Either they are hoarders with unreasonable expectations about what they have, or its all stolen property I just don't want to deal with that.