I am not sure I understand what you are hoping to accomplish? If you don't want to pay that amount, then don't buy it. If others feel the same as you, they won't buy it.
In the free market that we have in this country, there are always different ways of doing things and there will be price differences.
If you have all this energy and desire to claim certain prices are rip-offs, then why don't you target the big r/c manufacturers and the pricing on tires, bodies, etc. So a 1/12th body at $25 is "overpriced" going off your theory that material cost is probably less than a dollar?
Heck, why don't we just move to an economic system where there isn't any profit for anything? Forget factors such as time, people resources, research, tooling, etc. Just go off of cost of materials and make sure it all equals zero in the end...
-Rich
Last edited by RichChang; 10-17-2006 at 12:47 PM.