Too bad we can't all come together as hobbyists to drive the price back down to where it used to be LOL! I miss the good old days, when you could get a huge beautiful torch coral colony with several heads for 80 bucks or less. Just my 2 cents!
These chop shops treat reefers (especially new reefers) like addicts and they exploit them. This is why I always encourage people to go to their local reef clubs and look locally first. The frag from the local guy who has a coral that's practically growing out of the water is always going to be bigger and healthier than the frag from a person who imports a coral, chops it up into quarter inch frags and sells them all in a weekend by making a bunch of idiots click refresh instead of living their lives.