I know that price is outrageous. In general, anything made out of metal seems to cost an arm and a leg now. Some of the crimper that were like $18 in the 80's, now sport price tags of $100 plus. I have a fair collection: EZ-RJ45, Telco, AMP RJ45, ones with dies., ratchet crimps for insulated terminals, uninsulated terminals, Then a few for small wire terminals.
One AMP crimper I had to put valve grinding compound on the joint until it was usable.
Recently, i had to find a crimper for like 26-28 AWG wire terminals.