It is not too expensive, the question is whether it is legitimate.
Fact, some of the highest ranking accounts on here are bought accounts. Ranking means nothing really, unless you are prepared to suck up to a scheme that pays you for posting, at a rate that is most likely below minimum wage given the majority here will scratch their heads trying to keep their post count up.
It is quickly becoming apparent to me that the value of accounts are not for paid schemes, but for shill accounts, layer upon layer of shill accounts.
Few seem to cotton on to the multiple personality disorder that pervades in half of the altcoin threads on here.