User blog comment:PlantyThePottedPlant/Random Topic Blogging III: Blog Harder/@comment-4121682-20141021184103/@comment-4121682-20141023003850

Actually, on eBay, there's not too many sellers for this slice of fried gold. And they know the demand for this physical copy is super high compared to the supply of those actually willing to sell, so they either:


 * Let people fight over it in bidding wars, usually amounting to nearly $200,


 * Post it as "Buy it Now" for $200+

And both these options are usually without free shipping, mind you. I was lucky to win this cart off an auction that I purposefully joined last-second and won for a steal, free shipping included, $134.50. Sure, its long-awaited release on the Virtual Console brought demand down a little bit, but you can see how freakin' lucky I was to get my hands on this for as relatively cheaply as I did.