Mine cost a couple hundred, same exact style as the ones you were bidding on, Otter. I'm also a weird size (US size 9 women's) so I had to search a while, took about 3 months. They were new, which was too bad, because to weather them out, we Zammers put these boots through a lot.
Make SURE you break them in before you put the color and toe guards on them. I didn't, and my feet hate me from the last troop. Only got to sit down twice.
Deunan Shiruba