it depends on the sellers circumstance, if you want a ute that has had all the right things done to it u'll pay the money for it, but if you want sumthin you can muck around with maybe have sum fun learning a bit more about the car you can get sumthin reasonably cheap. i know a bloke in brissy whos lookin to sell a recently resprayed ute. everything is there its only 3/4 put back together, every time he and his old man try to work on it they end up fighting, so they're gettin rid of it cheap.
In other words, theres lots of utes out there so shop around and get wat u REALLY want. You're the man with the money after all