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Ok, so they were linked at Head-Fi after all, but only with only a little bit of time left in the auction. I was hoping we would get through the entire auction without them being linked here at Head-Fi, in order to support my theory that headphones such as those will still sell for retardedly high prices even when they aren't brought to the attention of the Head-Fi community.
I do find it interesting that one of the bidders (who apparently really wanted to win them) was the same person who started the thread that provided an Ebay link to them.
Every time a pair of phones like this shows up on Ebay, I always (for giggles) bid at least $600 or $700 for them, since I know I don't stand a snowball's chance in hell of winning them - however if I somehow DID win them at that price, I would run away giggling like I just stole something. But I am not naive enough to truly believe that that will ever happen.
The only real way to win a pair of phones like that is to be in the right place at the right time, and find the auction with an uber low "Buy It Now" price within 10 seconds of the auction being listed. If you ever turn out to be one of those lucky S.O.B.s, then more power to you. But for the rest of us, don't ever fool yourself into thinking that you will
ever win an Ebay auction like that at a low price (ie: it's HIGHLY unlikely that you are ever going to win a pair of phones like that for under at least $1,000) - regardless of if the auction is linked here at Head-Fi or not. And the prices are only going to go up as time goes by.
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