One of the costliest product on Amazon.com (amazon.com)

This is almost surely the pricing algorithms of 3rd-party sellers going haywire. We've seen it before on Amazon: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110425/03522114026/infini...

This is a classic antagonistic scenario for algorithms and it takes a lot of experience to get things to behave properly. Even the really sophisticated folks in financial markets get it wrong - HFT algorithms have run away from their creators in much the same way.

The best part is the "Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed"

A+, would view again

See also this one (read the customer reviews):

http://www.amazon.com/Datastroyer-Model-1000-Disintegrator/d...

Looks like there is a company that creates these items of exaggerated price to farm traffic http://www.topcoolstuff.com/double-lines-above-x-canvas-art-....