well, as you can see from the new photos i attached, it's got some issues and i don't believe a sarouk. so, i put it through the rugrag estimator and it spit it out as worth roughly $90 and so i told them i couldn't offer more than $50, if i were interested, and they countered w/ $70, which i will not do since i'm no longer interested.... so thanks to everyone and please let me know what you think of the rug now!
thanks for the other links, too, rugpro...