price of Oppo players threw the roof

Johnread57 ...  curious ... what leads you to believe your upgraded Pioneer LX88 beats the Opportunity 205?  Please share in a meaningful way that helps others out here.  What mods did you make to the pioneer?  What was your total time and expense?  What company(s) did you use for parts or to do the mods?  How did you feel about their service?  Did you do a side by side comparison to the 205 on your own rig?  Are you comparing the audio or the video, or both?  Was it a similar quality TV monitor for comparison, or for audio, were the 2 rigs comparabe as per, what speakers and amp were used in each rig?  Thanks in advance for any detailed feedback. 

Opportunity 205 = Oppo  205 ... dang autocorrect.

I nearly through up when I read this! But seriously, you do realize that oppo is still manufacturing the players, albeit in the very short term, until the end of this month? You can still buy them for regular msrp at best buy or other authorized dealers. Why in the world would you buy it from Amazon, probably from a third party seller and get ripped off?

I have one reserved for me at b.b.-on it's way right now to the store- as I type this.

Are you saying that if you bought one, you THREW your money away, like maybe over the roof?  Just be glad you did not buy the $500 one that was rebadged,, repackaged,  and sold for $2500.  Supply and demand also affected the $100 the Sony digital tuner. Just try to get one for several times that price.

The bottom line is that no one is twisting anyone's arm to pay those crazy prices. Perhaps one way of looking at it is that if the people paying those prices had really wanted an Oppo, why didn't they buy one previously?  Even when the announcement was made, they still had a backlog of inventory to sell. Why didn't they jump on one of those at normal price? 

The procrastinators willing to pay inflated prices are being penalized for not taking action. I hardly feel sorry for them. Personally, I wouldn't pay those kind of over inflated asking prices. 

I also wonder why Oppo would stop selling them if there was still a market. Obviously another manufacturer was taking their business, meaning that consumers felt other products were more desirable.