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Often with out-of-print items there's a kind of escalating war of Amazon bots. They look around for "the going rate" and price their copy at 110% of whatever the asking price is. When there's only a few, that can lead to some screwy price inflation where a few bots keep thinking the price is rising and keep upping their asking price - feeding off one another until they hit whatever the programmed limit of the algorithm was. So when you look around and just see a handful of extremely high prices on offer and everyone else out of stock it's unlikely anyone is actually buying them.

I could imagine people paying $60. I doubt very much that anyone is spending $200 on a set though (and that's speaking as a collector who regularly pays higher-than-retail prices to complete a set).

Thanks for the explanation.

I too would purchase a reprint. This unfortunately came out (and sold out) while I was on a hiatus from gaming due to various events in my life. I've just gotten back into the game again, and this was to be one of my first new purchases in about 2 years. I tried to nab one on Amazon and just got an e-mail saying the order has been cancelled. I'd be willing to pay up to $60, maybe a little more, if this were to get a reprint. The cheapest I've found on the secondary market so far is $200.

I can't understand those prices. Are there people willing to pay such amount of money?

I would love a reprint of this!!