I agree with Shannon that humans are way overrated; the opposite of garters.

I have no experience with the market, other than as a buyer, but maybe most people are not shopping that heavily these days due to the economy being tanked?

I know I'm not. Otherwise I'd be looking at some groovy flame paradoxes, overpriced or not. I don't plan to ever own every type of garter, & the local ones here (California) are legally out of the question for me, so my moto is simple:

"Radixes are forever, & paradoxes will eventually come home to Cali"

For now, I rather spend my scarce money on our snakes than on toxic Chinese gadget imports. Crazy, ain't it?