[mox]

I understand their frustration, but I don't feel too sorry for anybody who pays a premium for a "limited edition" model only to find it's not limited a year or two later. If they paid more than MSRP for it just because of it's (real or artificial) rarity they've made a concious decision to overpay. If they paid an inflated MSRP because it's a supposedly limited run, once again nobody forced them to, and unless they have proof that the manufacturer destroyed the molds, they should expect them to be re-used somewhere down the line. If a manufacturer promises one of it's products will never be duplicated exactly and then it does, that's fraud, and we have laws to deal with that, but otherwise the buyer should expect anything.

Basically what I'm trying to say is this is just like anything else in a capitalist system...the market sets the price. If the consumer thinks it's too high, all he has to do is say no. If he says yes and is unhappy with his decision a year later, well, maybe he shouldn't have said yes.