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Hi all, having just seen the following listing on eBay, I felt compelled to start this thread. It is for an ordinary, basic version of the modern Parker 'Urban'... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/236346487850 ..but look at the price that the vendor is asking for it! I initially wondered whether s/he had misplaced a decimal point, but then I looked at the prices that this vendor is asking for other fountain pens: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_dkr=1&iconV2Request=true&_blrs=recall_filtering&_ssn=craftitmylife&store_cat=0&store_name=craftitmylife&_oac=1&_nkw=fountain pen REALLY? So, do we think that this vendor is 'just' attempting to chase 'the Stupid dollar'? OK, I know that 'the Stupid dollar' is a really big dollar, but I must confess that my own thoughts tend to the suspicion that this person is attempting to do 'money laundering'. 'Selling' pens to various 'colleagues', in order to generate a paper trail that can start to 'justify' how they happen to have so much income/cash in the bank. I would be grateful to know what everyone else thinks about these prices. Slàinte, M.