First, I am a firm believer any owner can ask anything they want for a game. It is their property after all.
I guess you can make the argument that both GNRLE and Pirates LE had an original MSRP of 9500. Both are pretty loaded and beautiful in their own right. Pirates took a big hit from the buying "Market" due to eliminating a couple of advertised features during the design/manufactoring phase. This hurt the value on Pirates pretty bad. The SE I ended up with ,sat with the distributor for a while. It wasn't until the game got removed from the production line until the game started to boom in demand. Someone who paid 15K for a Pirates is not not very likely to do this deal. The question is will someone who paid the MSRP for Pirates be willing to do this trade? Do not know. I think it is a long shot, but hell, if the NY Jets can beat LA and Cleveland, anything can happen (for the record I am a long suffering Jets fan waiting on the second coming of Joe Namath ) .