I just ran a quick program to check on ebay sales of Rio Car units since the price drop and it came up with the following tidbits:

Sold To date:
14 Rio Car Units (14x 10 gig)
1 Tuner (With Unit)
Numbe of auctions ended with "Buy It Now": 14 (100%)
Average Duration of Auction prior to 1-1-2002: 5.5 Days
Average Duration of Auction 1-1-2002 to 1-8-2002: 3 to 6 hours
Average Sale Price: 10 gig units before 1-4-2002: $496
Average Sale Price: 10 gig units after 1-4-2002: $399
Average Sale Price Premium for Tuner: $250 *
Prolific Sellers:
Caryjj: 9 units sold + 1 Tuner
imobiwan: 2 units sold
micman2b: 2 units sold

Currently For Sale:
16 Rio Car Units (7x 10 gig, 4x 20 gig, 5x 30 gig)
2 Tuners (1 With Unit)
Auctions with "Buy it Now": 12 (100% of non-dutch)
Auctions where bidding has deactivated "Buy It Now": 2 (17%)
Dutch Auctions: 1, with 5 units
Average Asking/Buy It Now Price: 10 gig: $500
Average Asking/Buy It Now Price: 20 gig: $606
Average Asking/Buy It Now Price: 30 gig: $650
Average Asking/Buy It Now Price: Tuner: $225 *
Prolific Sellers:
ptk153: 5 units for sale
ahanz: 1 unit for sale, plus 1 unit sold
Caryjj: 1 units for sale + 1 Tuner

Kudos to curlykicker for selling tuner separate from unit.

* Tuner price from combined package sales derrived from comparions to prices without tuner



Just though you all could use some useless statistics...