From: Duncan Moore,
>>Thanks for your question, while I wish I could give you a profound answer, or even a puzzling one, on why I listed these essentially new modules at such prices, I'm sorry to say that I'll have to disappoint. I literally listed these prices exactly the same as bridechamber, which to my knowledge is the only place to buy motm kits and modules, making it the most comprehensive criterion for pricing. By the way, please tell me which of the components is marked up $31 so I can adjust it for you. After checking out your website I assume you're in the market for more gear. Let me know. Thanks for your policing of this email group, too, if it weren't for people like you, we'd have modular synth highballers scamming members of our synth community right and left. I salute you, personally.<<
I was looking up prices on the Synthtech website which I thought was the only source for the large format stuff. For instance the MOTM-800 is listed at $199 while yours is $230. So there's the $31 example.
As for policing the list, I don't do that, nor give a damn what somebody pays for used gear. I usually just delete all sales posts, which is just about every MOTM list post. But when your post listed a Micro VCO, I went to the MOTM to refresh my memory as to its features, and that's when I saw a price lower than yours. Now you say that even though you bought the modules and I guess used them (one you even had power wires soldered directly to the module), they're still considered brand new and warrant the full new price. In all my decades of buying gear, that's a new one. But hey, that just made the value of all my gear go up a bit.
So the irrationality still exists, and has now increased, because we could get into why people buy modules and kits, rarely use them or don't bother to build them, and then turn right around and sell them. Seems like a futile human endeavor to me, but perhaps buying then selling modules has a thrill to it that I fail to understand.