Funny you know, but when I was shopping around for a new camera recently I was looking at whether there might be a cheap 1DsMkIII about now that the 1Dx is in widely available numbers. I stumbled on this:
http://www.digitalrev.com/product/ca...iii/MTg4NA_A_A
Don't know what the veracity of it is, but it is certainly not the price I paid for mine when it was the latest and supposedly greatest. That's a cheap 1-series. Not a 1Ds, but still, a cheap intro to the series.
Cheers,
Tim