I wouldn't say the market sucks at all - the main statement to take away from this 6 page thread is 'Good names will always sell regardless of the market'
As a domain trader, you just have to understand and work out what makes a good name and what doesn't - this has never changed and never will.
It is like I said back last year - Acorn is the car boot sale of the domain market, with the odd trader pushing out some quality names from time to time, but the majority are the same sellers, turning up week after week trying to sell the same stuff the other traders have seen week after week.
If you put Acorn domains into real world terms, it is like a bunch of butchers turning up day after day to the same place, with the same meat trying to sell it to each other and lowering their prices daily hoping ANOTHER butcher will buy it.
When the butcher turns up with the prime piece of fillet steak - everyone wants to buy it, as they rarely see it, but the majority can't afford it, but that butcher isn't too concerned as he knows he will have a number of restaurants contacting him to buy that fillet of steak - the only barrier then is the price