Not sure I agree with you, nothing worse than trying to pull a run of 2.5mm2T+E through joists when it keeps looping off a busted reel?
Kinks galore..... I feel all said and done it is good value and intend to buy another.
Just to add my families business has allways been injection moulding, mostly vehicle parts and more lately the motorway gantry signs, a mould tool the size required to make these items would be tens of thousands of pounds, even if it were a soft alluminium tool. (Which I doubt as the item is a hard plastic and would quickly kill an ally tool). The piece part as you rightly say would probably be high pence/low pounds, but that is just raw material cost, I still feel it is good value! (If it was my company I would mould them in black as it is easy to colour reground plastic in black, it also does not show up spots or burns)
Oh its all coming back to me as a nightmare......working for dad in the 80s....small run on an item like this, 2 hrs getting the tool in, ages purging the previous plastic through, setting the machine up, running off a couple of hundred items and then changing the tool and plastic all over again....can smell it now!!!!!!!
Mind you I also remember debbie one of the machine operators and a pallet of rubber granuals on a night shift..........................