Fark, have a bee up your arse already. Apple sells it for that price, but no-one is obliged to pay that much; it's a convenience tax. Any RAM or HDD work (including the stuff from CentreCom, yep, PC parts work), and Apple provide instructions on how to replace them yourselves in the booklet you get with the laptop.
Shit, I try and call it a day, but no, you wanna keep whinging.