@chrisaldrich Around here in a resale shop you might find a $35 typewriter but it will be old, dirty and tired. Good ones at antique stores will be several hundred dollars but they may be willing to entertain lower offers. Big office manuals have good prices - I've seen $75, because of low demand. I have not checked Ebay in a long time but prices were rising back then which is why I jumped on several auctions when I did. I think the typewriter market also got a lot of action during Covid-19 lockdown.

I have not tried typecasting but it looks like fun. I know @petebrown here on Micro.blog typecasts on occasion and is also a typewriter collector.