The cost is irrelevant. The comment was about selling price. This is why less and less new strikes are available. The cost is too high for price returned. By the way this also favors the dealers. $500 or more into a machine will drop the average price over lower amounts a single collector may wish to spend.

Why are the prices so low if it not for the over all abundance of strikes out there? Would not prices increase just due to cost?

Tom