Not saying they are not fine dogs, but I have had 6 GSD over 45 year and all have been wonderful, strong, intelligent and great family pets. I have no interest in breeding them or showing them and even registration papers are useless to me as they have all been spayed.
Pure bred GSD from German stock are available widely throughout the country and the average price is about $1500.00. In the end all you can really do is pick the one you like (you cannot do that with the New Skeet dogs) and hope for the best. Paying $3000.00 doesn’t in my opinion give you any more in a dog then paying $1500 as long as the buyer does his due diligence.
That may be the case, and certainly you're entitled to your opinion. There are a number of people with $3,000.00 who disagree with you, enough so that they've gone back to New Skete for second and third dogs.