not fit (or affluent more accurately) to have owned an empeg at its full retail value.

Damn it, I so did not want to go here in this thread...

If you think everyone who owned an empeg before the fire sale was "affluent" you are very mistaken.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I didn't anticipate anything changing when the prices went down, but things did change. A lot of straight up dopes started frequenting the BBS. They went away. The fact that they were dopes had nothing to do with their income, they were just dopes.