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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jonno52" data-source="post: 3378962" data-attributes="member: 72350">This is not "best price" but the opposite. In all seriousness (this is not an April Fool) there are organisations offering bins on Amazon at ludicrous prices. People may have noticed this before of course, but I'd never seen anything like it until recently.They tend to be UK "store fronts" for dodgy outfits overseas. The attached examples show what I mean - they've now disappeared, but stayed up several days. It's to be hoped that no-one would ever pay prices like these (!) but the bad guys only have to strike lucky once to make it worthwhile. Slip of the cursor or whatever on the part of a buyer.The one I wish I'd taken a screen dump for was the Zeiss Miniquick 5x10 monocular. The standard price is around £115. Someone was asking in excess of £8,000 (yup, over eight thousand UK pounds). Unfortunately I was stupid enough to pay over £200 for one which did arrive, but took a month to get here from the USA, and on which Royal Mail required me to pay customs duty before they'd let me have the thing. I did demand that the customs charge be refunded, which it was, but I was pretty annoyed with myself.</blockquote>