Well, I bought one for about $150, because people on this forum talked me into buying it to sample, then resold it at a slight loss after recording a ridiculous 12 GB of raw sample material. That was a Defil electric 12-string from the 1970s. The other one I kept and play live, that was about $200 - it's an Artisan ES-330 copy. With a buyer's market for used instruments, it's not really that big a surprise that manufacturers of new guitars are having trouble.
Well, at least some manufacturers - I wonder how, for example, Eastman are doing financially. But I guess that's a whole another thread.
Edit: and somewhat more on topic, I did get a library - Spitfire LCO - for my birthday this year.