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To sort-of justify the prices, think of the shape of the piece of weatherstripping and what it takes to actually cut it to the propper dimensions. Not just actual length but all the crevaces that make it more than just a piece of garage/home weatherstripping. Hundreds of makes/models that all have different weatherstripping. When you think of the logisics of reproducing all of that weatherstripping it's really crazy. I ordered a catalog from a reputable weatherstriping company (forget the name of it now) a while back and it was literally over an inch thick. So I imagine the tooling/processes just to make all of the stripping is why it costs so much.
As far as the NOS stuff, its simple economics. No the average joe won't pay thousands to get weatherstripping for his first gen camaro, but someone out there will. And once its gone its gone...so they are going to milk it for all its worth. The demand for the good stuff is so high that it all will sell.
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