Originally Posted by Tali HO

looks like they just had the starting bid that low, a lot of times people will have the starting bid low to attract more people to bid on an item. Like it was mentioned above they have the same kit for sale for $5000. There is still 8 days left on the auction so it is quite possible that the bids will go up by the time the aution ends. Being a ebay regular I have seen plenty of items start off at .99 and sell for hundreds of dollars. I have no idea about the validity or reputation of the seller but thats just my 2 cents.

Originally Posted by ttrank

It's up to $3k now.