Heh heh, I'm never quite sure if these people are mentally ill or if they're just thinking they can catch some rich sucker with more money than brains. Like I've seen people on ebay selling records that are supposedly an "ultra rare first pressing!!!" with a starting bid of $5000 and it's something that I know is actually fairly common and is worth maybe $50 tops.
I suppose these kinds of things only have to work every now and then and they can make a ton of money - like some of those phone calls you get that basically scream "SCAM" and you wonder how anybody could possibly fall for it. But if they make a few thousand calls in a month, odds are, they reel in a sucker or two and make it all worthwhile.
Having said all that, it's really hard to imagine anyone being interested enough to buy this, but not interested enough to know that $25k for this is completely absurd.