ETH is nothing compared to BTC
Who is making any comparison here?
OP, what I think or what you think or what anybody else thinks is really not going to stop or add to the price of Ether. To be honest, ethereum has not lived up to expectation. At least, to mine. One expected that the price would've gone up higher than it is now considering how other coins have faired better in the market. Ether sucks! By the way, is $500 mark even high?