That all depends. The Nuk6 pacifier we all know and love/loathe started out as pricey but mellowed out. This is because either:
- the mold itself has likely made enough product to have paid for itself and thus the rest is profit, or
- market demand dropped off sharply and they're trying to make product at a slim/no profit in order to break even on the mold cost.
Injection-molds are not cheap; they can easily run into the thousands. There's a lot of things which can be molded for our niche market but it's not likely they
will be molded...
because we're a niche market. Buyers here are fickle. The only reason diapers succeed competitively is because of three things: AB, DL and IC. We
all wear and/or use diapers. Therein is our common link...as both a community and a market. Not everyone wants an AB pacifier or an AB crib...and all AB items are, more often than not, hand-made, by either sewing, machining or 3D-printing. Just not enough demand.
And it's why I won't make an inventory of cribs or the like: not enough demand for the overhead of materials inventory or tooling. I can make and stock an illustrated or virtual inventory...but not a real one. I can't make and stock an actual inventory of AB cribs that easily cost $600 and up (
without shipping, I might add). I'd lose my diaper in a heartbeat. And I'm not a big fan of goin' about in the nude.