I just bought a pastel male. Why? Because I like them ;)
And because when the 'price comes down', I will be one of the people selling to the people that waited for the price to come down.
When I looked around for pastels, I also paid attention to what pastels produced great supers cause even though pastel prices maybe 'cheap' to some people....super pastels still have prices in the thousands and will have higher prices for years to come.