I got this cheap. Its not anything high end, and it's a little smaller than my old one (also a 2nd hand Mac) which actually works out better in my 1 car garage. Since the 1 ton swap, I can't roll my old cart past the Jeep. I had to pull the Jeep out to get the cart out of the garage. LOL
There's a guy here with a nice looking Snap-on 40ish" on CL (link below). He had it listed for a while at $1900. Just saw he dropped it to $1500. If I could have found a decent one closer to $1000 I would have picked it up, but like you I was seeing everything $2k and up. Instead I went with HF and have no regrets. I can't imagine there is any better value out there $ for $ than the red HF boxes. I got a 44" bottom box, and I'll eventually get the matching top box. I really like the 56", but again, 1 car garage. I just didn't have a place for anything that big.
http://augusta.craigslist.org/tls/4823449513.html