GENEALOGY: Auctioned Family Bibles

It breaks my heart when I see a family bible for sale on EBay. In my family nothing like that was passed down and I would love nothing more than finding a treasure like that for sale. With that in mind in the past when I have time I try to track down family members connected to the bible.
Most of the sellers list some of the people entered in the bible so you can put together a line of people. Then the search is on.
It can be very time consuming. I just email the people I can find and let them know that I have nothing to do with the sale of the item. I am just giving them a heads up that it is out there and available. I don't know if they ever get the item.
Now don't even get me started on the old photographs in the antique stores...