Sounds like you've got a pretty good job mr. AgilentScopes. Might I suggest next time you sell those scopes for around $1500 instead of giving them away for free, and maybe giving a couple of random purchasers a full refund afterwards (effectively making their scope free). This way, you know the people buying the scopes are really looking for a scope, you get some money out of it, and a few people win a free scope anyways.
Remember, thousands of people bought the 50MHz Rigol DS1052E scope because it is a damn fine scope and only costs ~$400... if you sell a 500MHz scope for $1000 - $2000, a lot of people will probably go for that instead, as an investment, plus the added bonus of it being a mixed-signal scope. However, if you charge $10,000 for it, the average working stiff won't be able to afford it, and even if you only charge $5,000, the price per MHz is actually higher than the Rigol and there isn't really much incentive to pay that much.
The only reason businesses pay so much money for said devices, is because it isn't coming out of the pocket of the employee who orders it... what the hell right