Quote: Kind of what I was thinking..... the law of supply and demand at work. It's not like these places can have 100 of these poured and machined and then wait for the public to beat their doors down with purchases.
Why not? Seems like they ARE beating the doors down, and what is the percentage of the cost of the raw casting in the big picture (always thought the real cost was the machine work), are there that many variations of castings, and the machining could/should wait until order/deposit is received anyway.
Bottom line, this current method doesn't seem to be making many happy, and we all know what the outcomes is when customers are unhappy.
Reality check, that half the population is smarter then 50% of the people and it's a constantly contested fact.
