At best, that poll gives one a median (somewhere in the $500-$1,000 range) and not an average. The highest price bracket for the survey is $10,000+ and there is no way to give proper weight to a table that is much higher than $10,000. It is also totally not clear what was being surveyed--only the table or the combination of the table plus arm, or table plus arm plus cartridge, etc. What is also interesting about the individual postings is that the people actually commenting and saying what they have are those who are proud of how little they have spent, not those showing off how much they spent.