>> Thats pretty stupid. List on them is $199 and sale price is $99. Looks
>> like someone trying to make a killing on impatience. Then aagain all too
>> often ebay is egreed.
>
>egreed? I don't think. A good argument could be made though for
>>e-ignorance, e-impatience, e-"don't want to check around" and perhaps a
>few >other similar items.
How about good old-fashioned cluelessness? As in people bidding on stuff
when they haven't a clue as to what it's actually worth or where they could
get it for a honest price?
In the case of the iOpeners though, I suspect it's a case of speculators
buying up a bunch when they could, and now dumping them, while the
speculation is that any further ones sold will be "unhackable".
Zane
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