So, as anyone who frequents the trade thread will have noticed, I'm trying to finish up a time trial bike and one of the items I'm looking for are aero bottles. I had added a pretty unremarkable-seeming bottle to my watch list on eBay thinking I might be able to snatch it up for cheap since the ad wasn't great and it was a gross looking colour. Well, I'll be damned if it didn't sell for an outrageous sum:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=320367226723

There were two other nearly identical bottles with a BIN price of $25 that I had planned to buy if the auction didn't pan out which were of course also immediately snatched up, no doubt by some d@uche hoping he can re-sell them for with similar results. My question is does anyone know why it went for so much? I know it's not uncommon, I've seen several on eBay and elsewhere for around $20. Can anyone enlighten me? Was this particular bottle some sort of arcane treasure? A lot of really insipid transactions take place on eBay but they can usually be attributed to the buyer not doing his homework, this one has me feeling like I must be the one who hasn't done mine.