Having started the 4th of January and thus missing the 2nd release of the new colour hats, I rather dislike their current pricing also. They're impossible to get for newer players like myself, especially when one prefers to spend their earnt money on crafting or smithing supplies.
There's only so much GP in this game currently; not enough to buy all of the hats. You'll rarely see anyone actually paying these prices in cold hard GP, because nobody has 70 mil gp laying around to ''just buy a green hat'' ; so yes, these hats mostly trade hands with stakers. I'm fine with that, but we should really stop giving them so much value, because by giving them this much value, it also destroys the economy for other items as people who were simply around at that time are given an unfair advantage to buy them selves into skills quite easily rather than actually having to spend any effort into raising them.
Players with many hats will simply disagree, dislike; fully understandable. I've mentioned before they're only really worth so much people want to actually spend on them. I don't feel people are actually willing to spend 70mil for a green hat. The new coloured ones have much more fair prices, ranging around 5million. The old ones should be worth more ofcourse, but not over 15million I'd agree.