Why is the Discontinued Logitech Z-5500 selling for 14-1600$ everywhere?

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As the question states, am I sitting on a gold mine? Did someone discover the speakers internal cones are made of diamonds?

I have owned and loved this system for years, but was in the process of selling mine. I put them up for a reasonable price of 200 only to see newegg and Amazon listing them for 1400 http://www.amazon.ca/Logitech-THX-Certified-Digital-Surround-Speaker/dp/B0002WPSBC and 1600 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16836121120

Yet another source selling for 1600 refurb http://www.aztekcomputers.com/9701150403-LOGITECH-394027.html

Please Tom's Hardware help me figure out what this X-Files level conspiracy is ?!
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more than likely most of the sites are going by so called market value of what others are listing it at and adjusting their prices accordingly. basically A) in most cases.

those prices they come up with however will never sell. why they continue to list at such prices i have no clue.

here is an example.. i have a drill press from the 60's and to get a pulley from one of the replacement parts sites it is listed at $1300 for the pulley. that exceeds the price of the whole unit by a very large margin and not even the dumbest idiot would buy it. you could have one machined for under 1/10th that price or buy similar new pulleys for fairly reasonable prices that can be modified to work. why do they continue to list it at that price? either...
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the short version? generally such things are either:

A) people hoping for a get rich quick scheme.

B) hiding money transfer between two entities or companies.

your best advice is to ignore those and sell at a reasonable cost. personally i think even $200 for a used z5500 is even a bit high considering the z906 goes for $300-350 when on sale around the holidays. the z5500 is superior but not by a large margin.
 
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That is interesting what boggles my mind though is that it's not just Amazon, its all the sites I can find that sell them. I find it pretty crazy to the think that all these major companies are using this as a way to toss cash around right out in the open.

I will offer the guy 180 but the prices on those sites are still throwing me for a loop, and I am going to kick myself so hard if I could have gotten 500 or something because of the system going up in value.
 
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more than likely most of the sites are going by so called market value of what others are listing it at and adjusting their prices accordingly. basically A) in most cases.

those prices they come up with however will never sell. why they continue to list at such prices i have no clue.

here is an example.. i have a drill press from the 60's and to get a pulley from one of the replacement parts sites it is listed at $1300 for the pulley. that exceeds the price of the whole unit by a very large margin and not even the dumbest idiot would buy it. you could have one machined for under 1/10th that price or buy similar new pulleys for fairly reasonable prices that can be modified to work. why do they continue to list it at that price? either its autogenerated and nobody cares or they are looking to score bit since nobody else has it listed for cheaper.

just ignore those prices.
 
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