Half-price "Used / New" Cables


Can anyone shed light on how there can be so many offers here for what appear to be new high end cables such as Cardas Golden Reference for half-price?
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Elizabeth no more Prada purses for you! Oh my now you will have spending endless sleepless nights wondering if the labels on all my interconnets are genuine???:0)~
Thanks all. The XLRs I just received appear to be perfect, new Cardas Golden Reference, that's not to say they're not a good counterfeit, but they certainly sound better than the Nordost Red Dawn I'm replacing them with....so. The speaker cable is 3 mos old from a US based seller so I have no concerns there. Unfortunately, I'm being forced to pay retail for my 8M run from preamp to amp so.... That said, I have an 8M run of Red Dawn available :-).
I paid 6500 for my speakers new- used price 4 years later is 2k. Thank god i like them. My plinius amp was 4500 new, used i paid 2300. Hey, bought my $28000 car for 15k /1 year old/ 10k miles on it. Like the car, this stuff drops in value when you leave the dealer.