they're going up around here too... cant find one locally for much under 3500. i got lucky with mine only because i called the person selling about 2 minutes after they posted on CL and i don't think they knew any better.
After finding this site about a month ago, I bought 2 Metros this month.
$5oo for th '90, and $1000 for the '95 2 days ago. I feel lucky as the price has been getting higher every day, people don't seem to buy one, they buy two or three.