I bought it! Max is a pleasure to deal with and I am thrilled its on its way to me. I do take the point that pairing this with my Monaco is not the same as having the box it was sold with - but its a fairly close runner up for me. Having bought a few newer Tags, its always pretty apparent that the box is grabbed from a shelf of hundreds with little thought what goes with what. When these things come up so rarely, value is hard to determine. 500gbp is at my upper limit, but i cant envisage selling it in the near furture, so I doubt its a waste of money.