UK HP-41CX why ?

[HP41USER]

Does anyone know anything about the brand new hp-41cx being sold on Ebay. I have seen at least 10 to 20 per month in the last 2 years.
They are new old stock and all are UK sellers... what is the story behind them?. Were these units hidden, lost, forgotten .. stolen ?

[Namir]

These units were stored somewhere and basically or practically forgotten. They surfaced recently and were selling on eBay. They are unused and new units.

Namir

[John Nguyen]

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Does anyone know anything about the brand new hp-41cx being sold on Ebay. I have seen at least 10 to 20 per month in the last 2 years.
They are new old stock and all are UK sellers... what is the story behind them?. Were these units hidden, lost, forgotten .. stolen ?

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I've only noticed the UK 41CX sales on eBay recently, but I've only seen 1 or 2 per month, not 10. Maybe the stock is getting low? I'd love to have one of those UK New-In-Box 41CXs, but the going price is outrageous. There was one sold back in June for $651.99. Ouch. See http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11713&item=5783408911

John

[Darin Ingimarson]

I bought 2 of these from this seller about a year and a half ago. I paid considerably less than the $600+ USD noted in the previous post. Both arrived in new, old stock condition. I saw one go for about $950 once -- pick your battles on ebay and you'll do OK.

Both appear to operate just fine. I bought one as a backup for my trusty but aging 41CX, and the other I bought, well, as a backup for the backup. My wife took a somewhat dim (but ultimately tolerant) view of this, but she simply doesn't understand why one cannot be without one's 41CX!