Quoted from RobT:My guess is Roel is looking to sell, not buy, so it may not be a matter of him being able to afford it.
Exactly. Roel put a lot of "search for MB, CC, MM,..." ads for the past year or so on the french forums... I guess he found it's juicier to flip the A-pins for double by selling them in the US, instead of flipping them for a measly 1K-2K in Netherlands/Germany.