While it out of my price range I keep reminding myself that $.25 foot figures (first metal bought) didn'y last a year before the price "doubled" on me.
Very much a relative thing in the long run.
And I am "cheap" now days (except for Ebay DK and very early Ral Partha Dwarves and even there I try and limit buying figures not available from Classic Figures at below $3 - $5 plus postage) still.
Looking at retirement and having to reduce (eliminate in many cases) my armies to move keeps me from being seduced into paying way too much for figures.
Gracias,
Glenn