No luck necessary in this matter.
In Oct./'03 bought at market price, on web, a Var. 2,
with extension mag, procurement 2,000, for less than $1,000.
The Var. 1 procurement is 1,500 pieces, a small diff. in rarity,
certainly not enough to support an additional $1,500
(more than 150% increase in price).
There is a handsome list of similarly rare pistols, and
many are even more rare and desireable, under the $2,500 range,
ie. PP-PDM rig; PP-Persian; M1934 E/L (procurement 500);
HSc E/F...the list goes on.
No luck necessary here, but, I have seen transactions where
a careless buyer has paid far in excess of value for a pistol.