Alas, I'm one of those who got late to the party and put up $10K for it. It was the first pin I had ever purchased and I went into it pretty naïvely. It fits beautifully into my TRON collection and I have continued to invest into various mods for it. Yes, I would have liked to get it for far less, but in hindsight, I can live better with the sting of having paid for it too much than not having it at all!