User blog comment:Tails365/Legacy skins and pricing/@comment-5544574-20131206153614

To be fair, you're right - they aren't worth their price tag in aesthetic quality. However, a large part of the value now is in fact simply the rarity or the antiquity of the skin. Economically speaking the skins are 'worth' their price because they are that price - you're paying for the royalty of the skin.

I  actually don't mind there being a separate series of old skins that are 1820s - reducing their price or upgrading the quality may actually diminish some of the skin's worth.