There was a few people that got 3+ naturally haha. People just go a bit nuts with overpay for high demand stuff. They were paying crazy things for last years banner dragon and the witch pps lion. The banner dragon last year went rare and the witch pps was just an uncommon.
This is why whenever someone misses a high demand event pet older member tend to tell people to just wait for rarities to come out. Every year people always think the high demand pet will go very rare.
The demand for the banner dragon did feel a bit more insane than last years but that could just be because more people were playing. (More people active to outbid each other)