What about the age of the tree.?. There is no way this tree is 65 yrs.. Right? I see alot tress selling as several decades old and only 1/2 trunk..
It's a shimpaku twist grown in that style by humans. Take a shimapku whip, wire it, come back in a couple years and remove the wire. In this case it doesn't even look like it was wired - it might have simply been wrapped around a bamboo stick. Other than that, I can see no real sign of it being styled. If someone asked me, I'd say the tree was perhaps 10 years old(?) 6 years of growing out a cutting, wrap around bamboo, stick in field for four more years.
Reminds me of this:
Not going to comment on the "value" because if someone bought it for that price and they enjoy it - it was worth that much (at least to them).
I was talking to a nurseryman the other day who doesn't ship. He told me that he used to have an arrangement with a woman who would ship his trees. She used to take photos of some of his trees, and list them for 2x retail (plus shipping). If the tree sold, she would give him his full retail price, take the other half for herself, and go through the hassle of packing and shipping. He said she sold a lot of trees.