Sure, Kurt, but add shipping and customs fees, and you've more than doubled that $50-60, even in container lots of 200 units. And then you have to get them from the customs dock....I am not sure it's a case of greed, is what I'm getting after.
And bike shop owners need to eat, too.

Science Monster Mark, you might be right! Jeff over at Flying Pigeon Project has alluded to the vast amount of primitive bicycle repair facilities in Beijing. He loves his FP roadster, though, and commutes on it daily.

Anyhow, yes, by all means, a Raleigh/Phillips/Rudge/Armstrong/BSA/Humber Roadster will be a superior bicycle in every mechanical way.
I'm not sure that was exactly what the OP was looking for. If it's cheap he wants, he can certainly find it with a Chinese bike.

Once my neighbor bought her 1980 DL-1, she's hardly looked back at the Phoenix. Once I found her the 1957 Phillips, she's hardly looked at the Raleigh.

(Which is good, because *I* got it from her...who knows what would happen should she find a 1910-20 Sunbeam or a 20s-30s Umberto Dei)

Corey