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@Regal
I did say 'probably' as I didn't know if you'd accounted for it. Their bike builder doesn't display it automatically (I don't think).
For the record, I don't have a problem with your prices in the sense that it's more or less what you'd expect to pay for a custom shop build. For an OTP they're expensive, obviously. And I wouldn't pay them. But then I wouldn't pay them for a custom build either, because I'd gather the parts and build the bike myself, like a lot of people here. But there's a niche within which you're now operating, of buyers with some cash to spend and little specialist knowledge, for which it's absolutely a fair price (notwithstanding any perceived brand cachet of the frame).
The problem you'll have here is that people here do have specialist knowledge, and they do remember those early bikes, and they were awful. I know you think that you need to win the PR war on places like LFGSS but I'm not sure you need to, really. The mainstream coverage you've been getting seems to have been very positive.