new wife/gf is making him sell it - I see this with guns all the time - "Gimme $400 for a $150 thing"... "we can't do it"... "honey, look I tried to sell it but no one wants to pay what it is worth!"
if you gonna laugh at this while your at it, laugh at petsmart and some other of the larger retailers, i have seen them sell kits and whole bunches of shizz for about that.