That's nuts:

Someone paid 5.46 Ether ($1,554.19) for fees and didn't even get in because of insufficient gas.
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xdf0a8b69e60c50fb24b03d5b0f599d2a6c2fdde0593f0f3529cedb7145b31f35

And several others paid over 5 ETH for fees as well (but they at least got in).