SilverWook said:

Well, someone paid an obscene amount of money for an obscure Kenner Droids prototype action figure last summer, so that kind of insanity tends to creep into related items.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1985-Kenner-Star-Wars-Droids-AFA-85-moc-Kleb-Zellock-salesmans-sample-1-of-1-/291167250870

The scary thing is that for it to reach this price, there must have been TWO people willing to pay this amount. It is indeed obscene - think of the number of people that could feed.