When thinking about cost of a new morph, one needs to think about the years it took to get to that stage, the expensive morphs are ones not common in numbers and ones that took a breeder years to get to the point where they could have adult bp's with the genetics they have bred to be ready to produce offspring.

If a clown which has het animals available can go for 1500 and above then it is not hard to see how animals can creep up the scale when you think about the years of getting one genetic animal and then raising that animal up, successfully breeding it, hitting the odds, no failure in incubation etc etc...when you get up into bp's that have several dominant or several recessive qualities it can take an eternity to get that animals to come out of an egg.