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I work in tooling engineering for a non-disclosed swedish automotive company. If Benno actually paid over $10k for tooling on just a kickstand that sells for only £120 . They need to re-evaluate their bussiness model.
More likeley they just load an other program into their welding bot, make some adjustments on the jig and crap out kickstands that day.
Or they bought a fancy welding cobot on the kickstand project budget.
It cost Benno over $10,000 to have the tooling made for that stand we were told. It's a great stand, but yeah, the high price isn't unusual for Benno accessories - the basket on my eJoy was $220 retail (but it has a capacity of 16kg)