Re: Why are tokens so expensive on testnets? It costs a lot of dollars to get them.
Token on testnets are supposed to be worthless and it should be quick to get them to test contracts. What's the point of spending time begging for pennies of ether (In some cases to get 0.001 )from various faucets until you get to test a platform? 
From my point of view something is not working well.
I know how do you feel but there are some faucet for the ethereum test net and it gives you lots of ethereum testnet From my point of view something is not working well.
https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/networks/
What you need to do to visit that link and then you will able to find some ethereum testnet faucet. I think that will help you a lot to gather ethereum testnet to be used to issue or test your testnet tokens.