Originally Posted by Andy_K

It drives me crazy that if you buy any Campy component that's missing a small piece you end up having to pay nearly the same amount again to get the missing piece (except when someone on this forum has it!). If all you cared about was money, parting out the parts would be the way you'd sell things like that. Fortunately, most people aren't soulless like that. I have a theory that this is an artificial problem created by the easy accessibility of sites like eBay. There are probably a lot of people (relatively speaking) who have the small parts but don't think they're worth the trouble to sell, and a lot of people who need the parts don't know any other way of finding them, so the few who bother to sell the small parts think they've got something ultra-rare that they can ask a lot of money for. This is the best explanation I can think of for people on eBay asking $25+ for something that people on Bike Forums will give you if they know you need it. Then there are the people who think eBay asking prices are a reasonable way to determine what something is worth....