I did a quick check of sold listings on Ebay. The GOUT Trilogy goes for about $75 on average, oftentimes more. There is demand, and you can’t pretend that its just hardcore fans. Each round of changes alienated and pissed off more and more people. Almost makes me wish Lucas had gotten to another revision- almost.
I got the trilogy for about $45 total from 2 different used video stores a few years back. I can only imagine that they’ve gotten harder to come by as time has gone on.
I got mine when the 2011 Blu-Rays came out. I picked Empire up from a used video place, Star Wars used and Jedi new from FYE.
That same FYE is closing and when I last went in had tons of the 2015 steelbooks brand new. Almost considered ROTS- but picked up Adele on vinyl instead.