Deimos Sales in Jita

It has been a while, but here we are again.

What the bloody hell is going on with Deimos sales in Jita? I've noticed a two week cycle where somebody buys a bunch of Deimos's and then sends the prices sky high, also the prices for the materials required to make the ship have increased, and further more the prices for one of the datacores required for invention have just peaked!

For a long time the Deimos has been in a bad way, the Micro Warp issues, which impact on blaster damage have given the ship a reduced usefulness in the Eve Universe. Currently it all seems to be about missile ships, certainly in PVE and also to a lesser extent in PVP, I don't think this situation is new however.

So what can be done? I'm not sure but it would be nice to have some blaster love from CCP.

So why have the prices gone up and why the demand for a ship that is supposedly a worse ship given the nerfs and buffs that have happened in New Eden over the past few years?

/me shrugs