Sure RIM has great phones but I wouldn’t pay $17,000 for any of them, no matter how much money I’d have. But since on eBay everything is possible, a bid for the BlackBerry 8900 Javelin has been won at $17,100.00. Is that person that desperate to get the Javelin? Why not buy a better RIM phone? The Bold? The Thunder?

Or did somebody else buy the device? You know, from the competition? Considering that the Javelin hasn’t been released yet that might just be it.