One of the problems people sometimes have with online sales is that they do not read the offering carefully enough. In this case, the fish in the picture is not the fish that is offered for sale at the price shown. It is a mature member of a different species than it is labeled.
I read the offering fine thanks. I was fully aware of the size of the fish. However I did assume that the image shown was of the correct species. It is unlike the shop I linked to to get things wrong, and they are perfectly reputable, though being in the states I would not expect you to be aware of the reputation of our stores here.
The written description states that the fish for sale are 1.5 cm in length. This converts to only 0.59055 inches. They are selling fish that are little more than fry. The price they are asking converts today from 8.49 GBP = 13.1579 USD. This is a pretty expensive little fish.
I would disagree that they are little more than fry. Some cory's do not get very large, and it is my understanding that this species is one of them. Some fish are indeed expensive. But I would much rather buy a smaller fish than one that is full size and possibly does not have as long a life. I enjoy watching my fish grow 
I know sometimes you guys pay well over the odds for your fish but I think $50 is O.T.T.
Not really. It turned out that the gentleman I was bidding against was in the process of increasing his bid by another $50 for the lot when the auction ended. Lucky for me.
Now let me explain the difference between the ad you linked to and the auction I won.
My comment about price was aimed at the original poster not you ! And he is paying in Australian dollars, not American ones.
The fish you linked to are very small and therefore young. They don't ship as well at that size than they do when they are older. Also, you will have to finish raising them yourself and this will take some time to bring them to maturity. They tend not to spawn at a young age although many corys will.
Again, this is not relevant, as my comment was directed to the original poster
Now look at this:
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Please keep in mind that this is an old thread and these fish were still being called a variation of C. aeneus. They are now called C. schultzei.
We are not talking about these fish though are we
Which fish do you think are the real value now?
Again, you seem to be comparing something different to me. I am perfectly happy that the comparison I have made is appropriate.
. Even at $25 each (which I doubt the person will sell them for) I think I could strech my budget to get 5 of them. Heck crystal red shrimp are still demanding big bickies, the cheapest I have seen here for low grade crystal reds is $5 each and all prices imaginable up into the hundreds for the highest grades. At least cory's should be easier to keep alive and breed then the crystals.
I will ask the seller if he has any pictures of the cory's he has for sale, becuase quite frankly the way so many places/ people misidentify cory's he may have the wrong name as well. Of course the same goes for the fact he could have the right name too. At one time even my favourite pet shop (who are usually pretty spot on with their fish) had two tanks one with a batch of Peppered Cory's and another tank of Corydoras paleatus, and of course they had two seperate prices on them. At least with pictures of the fish he' s selling I should have a good idea of what I am dealing with and how dark coloured they are.
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