Exactly. I love following no reserve auctions for the knowledge you gain on current value. It is a nice looking gun that I had pegged a good bit less than the final price, BUT I also hadn't seen it as having ejectors. Ejectors are such a wildcard in terms of value because so many people value them differently. They don't add much in my book, but some other people seem to be about collecting ejectors as much as the guns themselves. That said, an auction doesn't reach those heights with just one interested bidder. There were obviously at least a couple of people who wanted to add the gun to their collection. I definitely think it is an appealing gun, and the round serial number might have helped to generate interest.

It depends on if you like chasing shells or not.

That's why I stick to extractors guns, the club where I hunt does not like empty shells left behind. Besides, I haven't come across a 16ga hammer gun with ejectors.

If an ejector gun was only marginally more than an extractor gun, I'd buy it, but I, too don't put as much importance on them as many. Even when I'm shooting one of my ejector guns, I hold my hand over the shells. I don't leave them in the woods either.
I recently bought a DH whose wood, and frame size more than made up for not having ejectors.

As for leaving shells in the woods, there's not much better than thinking you're in good grouse cover and then finding spent shells lying on the forest floor. Even if I don't put up any birds, I make a point to return another day. Might as well hang a sign for other hunters that reads, "Yup, birds are near!"

And just a note on the colors on the subject gun of this thread. They are not done with a torch. These are genuine case colors, done by the correct method, or a least one similar. Just the appearance and effect is not correct for a Parker. Maybe after years of handling it won't look all that bad.