Y'all be crazy...if you're looking to build & fly one, just scratch build it, save a ton of money and you won't have to freak out about cutting the tape on the box, much less flying it.
About that... 10 or so years ago I paid way too much for some original '90s ShadowAero and Dynacom kits, and as of yet have been too scared to cut the tape on the box on any of them. Seems no method of building and flying would justify what I paid for it, and I don't have the heart to be in the "It was meant to be flown" camp. One of the Dynacom kits -- a mostly-built 5" Black Rock -- was the one exception, because it was mostly built, so I finished it, painted the beautiful fiberglass in a Days Inn parking lot in the rain with rattle cans, and flew the piss out of it. Every flight was perfect, but of course now it's all dinged and scratched up and as the kits are virtually non-existent now, it disheartens me to look at it sitting there in it's current condition, with the hackjob building I did on it circa 2002, far earlier in my rocketry career. I've always wanted to fix it up right and get it professionally painted, but it's stored away in my mother's shed 1,000 miles away so it sits in waiting.
Only way I can see paying that inflated of a price for anything is as a sentimentality purchase/collector's item, and even this I have lived to regret with my purchases of 10 years ago, that money would have been much better spent buying more PR parts to build and fly which of course I later bought anyway, or fixing up my old Honda Nighthawk, or finally paying off my car. Only thing worse than paying exorbitant amounts of money for a pile of fiberglass and carbon fiber is paying that for a pile of paper, in my opinion. But, to each their own, and clearly I'm in the minority here. It's a market driven economy, so if someone thinks it's worth it, money talks.
By the way, OP, that's cool that you're in MS, I wasn't aware of any rocket people in the area. My family's from the Meridian/Laurel/Hattiesburg area and I spent the first years of my life there. I spend lots of time down there and have held more than a few launches of my own in the cotton. Have always wondered why there's no high power clubs up there in the Delta. When I reach a point in life where I can finally move back down where I belong that will change.
