To me it's only a matter of what I think the whole package is worth. I've got all the basses I need, but if someone should throw me a bass like the Greco 3 pup at $300.00, including shipping, I might go for it. But it got to be something I really want, if I should pay more for it. Like my first -60's Embassy. That one was $1 000, handed over in a hotel lobby in Brussels by a Swedish diplomat, plus some trouble to get it from the US to Belgium, and then to Sweden, without costs. Now, that was a true experience including one rock musician, that I had never met, one Swedish diplomat - I only knew her step sister - and two Persian teenage twins! Took a couple of weeks, but it didn't cost me a buck! Synchronization is my middle name.