Need some help pricing a sword
I was recently checking out some swords and such and found a nifty TaiJi sword(Chinese Straight blade) made out of Damascus steel. It is sharpened and can probably take some abuse, but is not hand forged. I don't really know much else about it sinceI was with some friends and didn't have time to really talk to the seller much. I will before I buy the sword, naturally, but I wanted to ask the more experienced weapons buyers here about the price. The shop is asking $500 dollars U.S. for it. I'm a little green about sword buying so I'm not entirely sure how reasonable this is. Any comments?
-ZC