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This is UNREAL (absurd Akai Deep Impact content)

Really? I got mine for $189 BIN. There is one on eBay right now starting at $200 with no bids yet (still early in the auction though). I've seen a few go for right around $200 in the last couple of months.

I like to watch some of those auctions just to see what things are going for.

I've seen them go up and down. When EH came out with the POG the average price went down a lot.
 
the trick with rare effects is to find stuff that doesn't have someone famous using it. once someone famous uses it, the price shoots way up. the bass whammy would be worth $100 used if it wasn't for justin chancellor, for example.
 
On a similar note, what's the most anyone's ever seen a Unibass go for? I see them for $500 all the time.

I cannot comprehend paying $500 for a Unibass. I think I paid less than $500 total for my HOG and the foot controller (between Microsoft bribing me to use their crappy search engine, and some 20% off sale at Music123). The Unibass was nice when I picked one up for $99 on clearance (got the Deep Impact around the same time for $140) and there was nothing else that did the octave + 5th in such a user friendly way, but the HOG blows it away. Aside from the extra intervals, I use the note hold function quite a bit.
 
I love my G5.
Its the only pedal I haven't sold from the 90's. :)

I had a chance to get a deep impact at the MF clearance center here in town years ago when they were "blowing them out the door" but I passed because it just felt "cheap" to me.

:facepalm: