@LonePaladin: It doesn't seem so strange to me. Expensive things do take longer to find, in my experience, because they are less common, fewer people are willing to part with them, fraud is a greater risk, quality is a bigger concern, and so on. Big-ticket purchases like vehicles and homes take a long time for research, background checking, financing, and so on. Things are a bit different when you're talking about gray and black markets, but the same basic concerns are there. Also, expensive things often simply aren't available: You can't get the thing until somebody dies or makes a new one.