Thanks for all the information guys!
Looks like prices vary quite a bit!
Juhi, I wouldn't have thought that Plum-heads were difficult to find in India! I imagined them to be like the Cockatoos in Australia - all over the place and in every second household.
That's crazy how little you paid for Mitthu and Chhotu! Is it still that cheap if you don't convert the amount to dollars (as in, would most people be able to afford IRNs in India?).
Clopin was originally $620 at a pet store. As soon as I saw her I promised myself that I was going to bring her home one day. I visited her for 12 months before the store had a closing down sale and I could afford to buy her. They still wanted quite a lot more for her than $200, but James managed to bargain them down!
What followed were weeks and weeks worth of disaster and heartache. Just before I was due to make my final payment on Clopin and bring her home, the pet store owner shut her business down early, took Clopin, and disappeared!
We didn't have any means of contacting her at all. The shopping mall managers didn't want to give us her contact details because it was a breach of her privacy and they were having trouble themselves trying to track her down (she owed them quite a lot of money).
We persisted and after a couple of weeks we had managed to kick up such a stink that they relented and gave us her email address. We contacted her and by some miracle she replied!
What a nightmare!