[Captain Nash]

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Originally Posted by Kirathis

It's not Amazon. It is the re-sellers who sell on Amazon. Make sure you check the "Other Sellers on Amazon" section on the right. It seems rather random as to what seller gets listed as Amazon does not always default to their listing and despite what one would expect, the cheapest option is not always what shows on the main listing.

This indeed. Third party sellers you should consider almost like ebay without the auction - the price is what is listed (and I don't think it can be used but I'm not sure on that.). they set the price themselves and to my knowledge Amazon has no control (or if any very little control) over the pricing. I guess though if there was a major problem Amazon could cancel someone's selling account.

But of course just because someone is pricing something at an extremely unreasonable price doesn't mean someone will buy it. I've seen really crazy stuff. But if it's actually sold directly through Amazon without any third party sellers the price will be fairly close to MSRP. Sometimes even a little less!