Firstly - the one person I know who's managed to purchase a pair recently bought theirs for 1 Million gp, yet every time I've pursued a seller, even people who have multiples are asking for 5 million gp.
Is their a rough estimate of how many there are in circulation? I can understand investing in rares, whether to sell them later on and bankroll expensive skills or to just hold a monopoly on the server, but I'm a bit surprised that people with 3, 4, 20 pairs of these have asking prices that are higher than the top-tier combat equipment in-game at the moment.
So discuss, debate, speculate.
Do you think for example people will relax their hoarding of this particular item once/if new rares are released? Should the next holiday item be untradable? What does Christmas mean to you?