I know the feeling, I keep plugging away at something. For me because it's a virtual item I can't buy it with $$ without breaking the sites TOS from another member. In addition the item is so OLD (gosh, '03) that it rarely comes up for sale at all anymore.
So when it does, the virtual price tag is huge and I just can't justify the IRL monies I would need to create that kind of virtual cash for a pixel item. If I'm going to spend a couple hundred dollars I'd rather have something tangible as it were.