Too pricey?
No way. If you work it out, 7 hours a day is about $40 an hour. When you work in the flight to Perth the hire of the function room including morning, afternoon tea and lunch. He's not really making much money out of it.
I've attended courses that ran for the same period of time that cost four times as much.

The course was great, I learned heaps and even the guys with a little more knowledge than the rest of us got something out of it.
Norbert Snicer is the nicest guy in Pinball.
I only have the one pic of the Perth course, the normal looking guy with the hat on is me