To play devils advocate here, I have lesser's that are 100% Het Pied. I bread them myself, the father is in my rack (and is in my avatar). They aren't that hard to make (breed a visual pied with a lesser), so why the high cost? I was planning and have quoted $400 for the males and $500 for the females. Maybe I'm too low, but I just don't see $3k for something so easy to come by.