A lot of the inflation of iPod prices can be attributed to DankPods directly, but I feel bad for him because he himself has been deeply apologetic about causing people to get priced out of entering the hobby, but there was never really anything he could do about it. These days he seems to focus less on iPods and more on other related junk technology of around the Y2K era, perhaps in hopes if he stops talking about them the prices will drop. Also probably because he's exhausted the subject, honestly.
i'm not super familiar with dankpods specifically other than how he's got a cool pet snake, but it seems like you can't talk about cool old electronics on the internet at all without dropship hustle ebay scalper culture seeing dollar signs.
it's the new "as seen on tv" price hike.
'techmoan effect,' 'lgr effect,' et cetera, they just wanted to talk about shit they found cool on the internet and the shitty grifters came in their wake to ruin the hobby
"discounted"
(being fair with how many have been modded the availability of stock ones probably has gone way down)
