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That's my feeling too. Not to mention the time one needs to maintain persistent auctions.
If you honestly think someone is going to chuck out $30k for this, then that's one thing, but I see some of the same calculators listed persistently with a price that is only high enough to be undesirable (rather than empirically unreasonable, say an HP 48sx for US$200), and I can't imagine that persisting with such an auction would be worth their time and money.
The only motive I can see for this would be a matter of pride: "I know this calculator is worth this much, and darnit, someone will pay for it sooner or later." (Or maybe if you personally don't want to part with it for less than that amount, but even so, why post it persistently.)
If you a different perspective on this, please enlighten me.