Originally Posted by
Magpie
There are fewer good quality blades on ebay in their "wild" state. The great majority you see now are from dealers and fellow enthusiasts. All too often, they set a fixed price, or a starting bid at what many see as an already fully retailed price.
As cheap replacements for the top brands become harder to come by, those who don't have an issue dropping the same money for a used blade as a custom would have cost drive the prices ever higher.
And they DO fluctuate. A DD wonderedge a few years ago would fetch 125 bucks. Last year they were fetching 220. Recently I have seen some back at the old price. Follow Pixel;s advice. Buy just a few nice ones, don't get crazy, and enjoy some sanity. Now if I could only follow that advice myself....