i was able to pick up the Barricade rack for well under 400 shipped to my door. there may always be a "soft" solution for the kayaks as well. Years ago i had a snowboard rack on my car that just had a couple foam pads that strapped around the roof, you would then place boards on top of said pads and run a second set of straps to hold down boards. it was ghetto but it worked. there may be something like that available and with normally needing to secure the front and rear of kayak to bumpers anyways id imagine it would hold fine. There is always craigslist too.