People getting huge money for repros on ebay pisses me off more than gauging on the official stuff. It's like if you took 30 seconds to google the game you never saw when you were little you would see that you could get it for 35-65 bucks.
I rant about gougers all the time, but I fully support repro gougers on ebay. They're the one form of gouger with whom I have almost no qualms. They don't capitalize on scarcity or plunder relics from previous generations or drive prices up or speculate on future "investments". No, repro gougers simply feed on the only people lazier than resellers: buyers so impulsive and rich that they can't be bothered to do a single google search before making a hundred-dollar purchase.
Using the internet is a basic life skill in first-world countries. It's on par with tying shoelaces, staying out of credit card debt, and not drinking soda for breakfast. The participants in one-hundred-and-thirty-dollar bidding wars for Earthbound Zero on ebay are the worst sort of spendthrift, wastrel, idiots imaginable.
