Yes I can see his asking price for a gun in that condition to a collector. As Jack Puglisi use to say to me, find another in this condition.....
And he was right, I never lost money on high condition guns. You are looking at it from a shooter's prospective not a collectors prospective, totally different story. That's why I sold my D grade collection of mint guns, I did it and had 8 ga through 410, and then just looked at them on the wall, couldn't shoot them so down the road they went... It's all about what you want.