Who knows, maybe someone from this forum did buy it but didn't pay that eBay price? (Not me.)

I agree with you about the secondary market. It's gotten out of my league, but there always seems to be someone willing to pay those prices.

And it seemed like a fair number of the people at the Bose Blade drawing were there to flip knives for a profit instead of sticking them in their pockets or even in a collection. At least a few of my friends got lucky though.