Hmm, with vat it's £990 around $1600

And yes that is very cheap for a good hand held scanner.
BUT next year there are going to be a lot of intel based tablets hitting the market with built in stereo cameras and 3d scanning apps readily available to use them.
And even the top of the range piece of crap ipad isn't a thousand pounds.

I'll wait.

But if I were a business looking to see whether or not a handheld scanner would help - yeah I'd get one.