People are getting confused with the value I think, its not at 1 because people are trying to buy at 1, its there because people are selling at 1!
I could leave a buy order there forever, but if no one sold at less than 10, the order would never fulfil.
You would then get people who want the coin to buy at the lowest sell price, which would be 10.
People saying we shouldn't be buying at 1 should be telling people not to sell at 1 instead.
I'll continue buying up to 100+, but if the chance to buy at 1 is there, I'm not going to miss it!
The interest is there, this is obvious from the large number of coins being bought, as soon as the people who are selling at 1 run out of coins (this may be when the reward drops and miners move), then the price will start to rise. Once the new features etc are released and the coin breaks 10, I think it will really start to pick up.
Until then, I'm trying to buy as much as possible!