At $275 it's actually a fair price. But why ruling out the modest user who wants to try out and see?
Typophile
Why are Berthold webfonts only sold from 500.000 monthly pageviews up?
Because snobbery is an strategy that helps sell old stuff to high prices; their catalog is old and most of their fonts available everywhere else.
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