One Friday afternoon, I had a chance to buy one used in pretty doggone good condition about five years ago for … $495! (one of the clerks had just put it out, a trade-in, apparently, the owner hadn't pulled out his Blue Book on that one yet) … And I passed, for one day; of course, when I went back to the shop when it opened the next day.
Gun show this last weekend, one private seller had not one, but two King Cobras -- both marked at $2000. Sheesh.