i just never understand posts like this.. if someone wants the deal then he should be out there hunting for the parts and first there with the money. plenty of good deals out there still. just have to be on the look out or when ya see it grab it before anyone else. if you think a sellers price is too high offer what you think its worth or move on. i see decent deals and i see stupid asking prices.. the seller will find out if his price is too high if the part doesn't sell. let him sit on it until it sells. no need to get upset about it..
its not like this is something new.. i can go back to the 80's and 90's and it was happening.. i remember selling a perfect set of 73 dart fenders at the mopar atlantic nationals dirt cheap just to get them out of the garage.. for the next three years i saw the guy who bought them load and unload them because he had them priced too high. funny thing is when i sold them you could have bolted them right onto a car the same color and been done with it. they were that nice.. three years down the road they were a mess. i used to laugh every time i saw him get to the show, unload them, then reload them because they didn't sell.. so lets not pretend that this is something new...
i also don't see the big deal on wanting to make money on parts.. if i find a good deal on something i want but don't really need i'll grab it if i have the extra cash at the time. for example i have 3 340 air cleaner set ups that i'll probably never use but i wanted them. saw them advertised at good prices and bought them (could easily make money on them if i sold them and a buyer would thing they got a deal too) may hang them for display one day... i may one day list those parts for sale higher then what i paid for them in order to pay for something i may need.. the market will dictate what i can get for them.. i'm sure not out to gouge anyone but i'm also not giving away good valuable parts ether.. again this is nothing new. been this way a long long time.. like stated already in this thread, they aren't making these original parts anymore. unlike a lot of GM parts they aren't making quality repops of some of this stuff either..