I just bought a 3 incher today for 40 bucks today. I almost spent 60 bucks on a L-128 last week but decided to sleep on it. Wound up getting a L-200 instead.
Obvious i was using Asia as a blanket statement, since depending if you are in Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, India etc there will be price differences of fish...but on average, we pay less for our fish compared to the US...