How many of these weapons actually exist? Anyone have a ballpark on the number of Thale's, for example, that are running around New Eden? It'd be interesting to see how many actually make it to market (and how quickly).

If the smart money is on hanging on to these weapons to sell a later date at a substantial profit, why is everyone expecting the market to flood with cheap weapons on day one? I'm guessing most expectations revolve around prepubescent idiots selling their sparse stock at clear out prices, but who in Dust hasn't heard of the Thale's sniper rifle, much less been assaulted by one from two maps over?

Thale's is the most reviled weapon in the game, one everyone thinks should cost seven or eight figures. I wouldn't be surprised to see the average asking price to hover around the 15m ISK range (I'd think the world is ending if prices hover in the low six figures (or Dust was populated by concussed gamers)).

Ah such silly humans.
I won't sell my officer weapons.
They are mine, no human is allowed to set his hands on them

The thing I do not understand is how the P2P market will correlate with Eve. Eve players have to make jumps and long distance trips to sell items. The immediate problem of moving items around space in Dust is that it presents a level of unfairness compared to eve players where they need to take risk moving their product and eventually Dust players will have hold of Eve items. Combined with corp hangers I do not see how a player market could be implemented so easily.