Sorry, I paid $150 plus shipping for my eBay Alyeska, about a year ago. Every other Alyeska I've seen since then (I admit to not having deliberately tracked Raleigh Alyeskas recently, however, I do keep track of them when the word "touring" is included in the description) has gone for about $150 too. $200 tops. I understand that prices are higher this year-- I started thread about that subject about a month ago. That said, no way has the market value of an Alyeska tripled in one year. Sometimes bikes go for crazy prices-- I started another thread about that here. That one time crazy price doesn't mean that the market price for that particular make/model is now set at the crazy price.

EDIT: I did see that Alyeska listed, but didn't track the price, because they just don't interest me any more (and that should tell any who are looking at an Alyeska what it's worth). There are far better touring bikes out there, for less money. If I had seen the price, I would probably have started a thread about it, shaking my head as Kurt has done, laughing at the ridiculous prices that anything with the word "touring" in the caption can command.

By the way, I sold that Alyeska on craigslist for less than I paid for it, because I couldn't in good conscience sell it for $150 when it needed work. It went to a kid who needed it to get to work after his bike was destroyed when a driver who "didn't see him" collided with him. I don't feel at all bad about giving him a break-- and I would have felt bad if, as you suggest, I had fleeced a clueless elderly woman out of her "valuable" Alyeska.