There seems to be some new luxury pricing treatment applied for these in Europe and I think Spyderco is no stranger to this.
600EUR for a weird looking piece for which they didn't bother adding a steel insert because of their feelings, sorry to say but whoever's doing pricing in there has lost their marbles, you can get 2 nicely done pieces from the competition for this price.
Same approach for Damasteel Urban, 280$=249EUR + 20% VAT = 299EUR, so just adding VAT should be around 300EUR, adding 26% should be 313EUR. Still, it's advertised for around 400EUR and that is a small slipjoint made in EU with EU steel that ends-up selling in EU for 60% more compared to US. Mind boggling...