But maybe if you buy a 40 seize old MK kit for that price You are not going to build it? Could be a kit collector and then the price it went for maybe is more reasonable.
If a kit cutter could produce as good as an MK kit then I'm sure people who want to build and fly them would buy them. But MK kits are in a class of it's own in my opinion. Very good quality and precision even by today standards with all the lasercut parts etc that can be made.
Imagine if Kato Model Aircraft Co Ltd (MK) company was producing kits or ARF's today - that would probably be very good kits and ARF's. To bad they ceased producing kits (some years into 2000 I belive - I have an MK 2002-2003 catalog and they had in that catalog kits like 1.20-1.40 (2x2M) seize Blue Angel VR-7,Blue Angel Super VR-7 and .90 seize Aurora 90, Super VR-90, Wild 7-90 and among the smaller one they still had Aurora 25 and Joker 25,  and a plane named Kingbird 30. And all the high quality MK accessories.

/Bo