@ drwho
I have one word for you: EBAY!!!
Do you not all find that the majority of items, once listed on Ebay, suddenly increase damatically beyond all sense in market value?
I bought an A500 on Ebay for £30.00 (approx $18) including postage, and my brother got an A500+ for £10.00!!!!
The problem is, either all those stupid bids were fake bids by friends or relatives to push up the price (so more fool anyone genuine who carries it on just to win, because your common sense [if have any] should prevail to tell you that its not worth it so just leave it and look at another listing) or people who got caught up in auction fever and lost all sense of the lot's actual worth, and just went bid crazy!