One of the things to consider also is the cost of material handling. The cost of handling the different steels that get delivered to say for this example, FX, the suppliers pass those costs to them.
How many times do you think a single impact gets handled by the time it gets to your door? I’m not including the carrier, so let’s say from Sweden to a vendor like Utah Airguns? It gets handled a bunch! Those all cost $$$, and the manufacturer will take all that into consideration when coming up with the price. So, yeah, a brand new M3 just in materials alone you might think $900, but what about the designer, the production/fabrication, the test team at Sweden, the shipping team, the harbor costs, ship fees, receiving costs and misc fees involved with shipping from overseas, delivery to FXUSA, FXUSA team checking and doing a final tune test, shipping to a vendor, vendor handling upon receiving, stocking, etc, etc. think about all the fuel involved from point A to Point B.
Yeah, material handling is always forgotten, and it’s a cost that MUST be passed on to the end consumer