Oh, I agree on not seeing or justifying spending $1000 on a turntable. I was mostly looking at something like getting a SL-1200MK2 (MSRP $550) on ebay. I was thinking perhaps I'd be able to find a heavily used one (I'm not picky on cosmetics) for around $2-300. Even then, that was more than I was hoping to spend.
I'll take a look at the models you mentioned. $150-200 sounds a lot more reasonable for this sort of thing. Honestly, I haven't done much research on this yet; it's still fairly far down the road for me.
