please don't part it out

We'd love to see some pics, indeed. IMHO the price is not determined by the amount of cleaning. If a seller knows what he has and knows how to bring it to the marketplace, the bids can go sky high. I've bid against dirt encrusted matchbox deraillers in the triple digits, yet picked out beautifully cleaned cranks (campy, modern ergopower) for beer money. Some people just like to clean everything they put on the web, regardless if they know what it's worth.