04 Nov 2005 at 05:05 - 4
Everything is getting cheaper since keys have made it fairly easy to get semi-decent gold weapons. For example, I have 4 15%dmg bows with good mods, and I got all of them from chests. It's just that you could go farm for a while and get something decent, but a perfect with low requirements takes a long time to get.
Also, it's not so much a case of people being stupid, in some cases (mine) they're so bored they have nothing better to do, so why not get a max perfect weapon?