that "crazy russian dude".... lets see now
1x BlizzPPC/060 £250-£300
2x BlizzVisionPPC £80-£100
1x BlizzIV060 £150
so thats £650GBP / $1300USD
leaving £350GBP / $700USD for a good mainboard, scandoubler, network card, fastATA3 etc...
so its not too out the ball park...
and to be honest, if i was rich enuff to just blow 1500USD on a good PPC card, i would.. if it gets re-listed for $1000USD, i (about 6 years ago) spent £350GBP $700USD on an 060 based 180Mhz PPC card... and these days, with cards dieing, or going into collections, closets, maybe £500GBP isn't too far off the mark...? lets face it, these are just going to get rarer and rarer.
i know you can get a 300+Mhz PPC board by ripping apart an old cisco switch, but it is not going to run amiga stuff now is it? :-D