The Amiga was very exspencive when it first came out. I spent almost $3000 on my first A3000T in '93 and then sold it for $2000 two years later and then bought the A4000D and a Video Toaster Flyer system including SCSI drives for video for $5000 and that was in 1995.
A so called High end PC or Mac in the late 90s would have cost you $3000-$4000 as well.
PPCs/Eccelorators for Amiga cant be gotten anywhere new so a person has to pay what the market is willing to no matter what. Look at some of the Antique road shows and see how much some of that collector stuf goes for :-o
