Is it me or is this a little higher than we've been seeing lately?

Ummm.... cool!

Well, considering 18GB Mk2 players went for $1599 back in the day, a 60GB for a touch over $1000 doesn't seem too bad. Yeah, they've been cheaper recently, but maybe someone has a Christmas gift in mind and went a little over market value...

From the description

>>Take it when you travel, so you'll have your own music in your hotel

Hmmm - no mention of needing an amp and speakers, or small headphones

To the guy's credit, that was a very slickly-done auction page, good selling technique. Not surprised it got a good auction price.

And by the way Frog, I do bring a set of powered speakers with me whenever I travel so that I can listen to the empeg in the hotel room. Doesn't everyone?

It's higher than I remember seeing before. I bet it's related to the fact that for the first time that I can remember, there are [bold]no[/bold] empegs available on ebay. A tuner, and a couple of faceplates, but no empegs.

The question is whether this is a temporary Christmas related thing, or whether the quick-cash boys and the I'll-buy-one-and-sell-it-if-it's-not-for-me types have finally sold their units, leaving only the true believers.

Yeah, a nice listing and showing the complete contents of the package was a real seller too.

I still personally think the 60gig model is of less value than a 30gig. Why? Taking out one of the two 30gig HDD's to do an upgrade really makes you loose. You have to buy a new drive of a size that not only replaces the 30gig but increases it as well. Then, you have a 30gig drive sitting around with no use (unless you are a shop or computer-phile or something).

Rock on 30gig's!!

ebay is a sellers market... the seller can totally win.
the demand is high and the supply is low.
i love my empeg

But then, suppose you don't NEED to put another hd in the unit. 60GB isn't a microscopic amount of space.