I know they factor, but if you're saying $50 is a good price for something cast in cheap plastic than thats a rip off too. Like I said somewhere else, any company like Mattell or Toy Biz or Hasbro could cast this in ABS for $5. You're willing to pay $50 for $5 plastic?
I thought the benefit of Sideshow vs those companies is better materials. I'll stick by saying SSC could have priced this exact same polystone item for $50-$60 and made a good profit by selling a bigger quantity of them.
You are viewing this all wrong. Sideshow is not Hasbro, Mattel, Toy Biz, etc... and it has nothing to do with materials used. It has to do with craftsmanship, attention to detail, and production mass.
Sideshow are a direct-market company that deals straight to diehard collectors. Their items are all limited editions and made in far, far, far fewer numbers than any major toy licensee.
Part of MFG 101 is the more items produced, the cheaper they cost per unit. What Hasbro could make and offer for $10 would probably cost Sideshow at least 2-3 times that, because Sideshow wouldn't and couldn't produce that particular product in the hundreds of thousands or millions like Hasbro does. But Sideshow's product would also likely be better and more detailed because of that more limited run and more intimate production process.