Well it's a shame and as you said it's not even worth it to mine the scrap and sell it in alpha because of the high distance and the low sell prices. I agreed with $9.899 but $5.400 is way to less for all the work. The premium scrap is pretty much all the junkers got to make cash with and reducing the price more and more is damaging the whole junker faction. I don't think it's the developer teams and the admins intention to take the junkers out of the game but if the price stays on $5.400 the junkers will simply disappear from the game or the faction will just end in pirating everyone to make some credits..