First of all, this is super real. My entire experience here would be different if not for a couple of individuals that I think might be making an actual living in the EU auction. The number of times I've seen someone bid several hundred PED over the current top bid for an item I've been trying to get and turn around and try to resell it for sometimes thousands of additional PED is ridiculous.
But People are more sheep than wolf, and lots of players think that there's a hard explanation for these MV charts and so it "must make some kind of sense". That's where we get into the things we justify to ourselves about paying prices from MV charts that were set when "spending more than the other guy" was a surprisingly common form of competition here.
Here's an interesting case:
This is a game and we have people playing at very different "levels".
What I see here is that someone was tired, or irritated over something, whatever. Due to their in game holdings or IRL bankroll they said to themselves "$60 to solve this problem is OK with me right now" and bought out a ridiculously priced Urn at auction. Maybe they were drunk and it was a "bid your whole ped card" scenario.
Whatever, two things have happened. A reseller, or maybe just someone who had one of these jars, took note and decided to seize the moment. Someone got one up at a price that looked like a "bargain" compared to the recent MV data, and someone took the bait. And TBF someone may have been happy taking $18 to fix their problem.
Or it could have been a savvy reseller trying to get that average locked in high. Who knows I didn't see the auction.
For people that work off of the assumption that purchase decisions are considered and others share their budgeting principles, they are sure they must be a reason someone would pay this price. For people that have enough money that a few PED is no matter, they see justification in the fact that someone else has paid a higher price. For a long list (i'm sure) of reasons, most people assume that what's shown in the recent MV data is "the price" and that surely someone else has done the research, or knows the reason.
For that reason these two urns will probably continue to have a large price discrepancy for a very long time. Someone was kind enough to put one up with a normal start bid and Bori Redsky Keystone is not jacking up the price. I don't expect to win this jar but perhaps we can work that average MV back down to a price where it has utility.
I just thought I would touch on another facet of this. Plenty of fair analysis regarding guns and 'professional' gear here. As far as the sanity of it, you just have to look to the origins.