You can't buy what isn't there and most new retail Money basses ended up out of reach of players, either place or just plain unavailability. Unless he knew about it and was looking for it, the average bass player had no idea it even existed, much less how it sounded and played. Gibson's bass distribution was even worse for it than for its other models. The majority of the ones on eBay probably came from closeout sales from big dealer backstock where they were buried in warehouses.