Quote Originally Posted by bergermaister View Post
Yikes - glad I bought when I did.

Still leaves me wondering......... WHY???

I would think with new design, product innovation, more radical 5-blades, etc the cost would/could go down.
Props are a giant piece of Nibral (alloy of nickel, bronze, and aluminum) that is CNC'ed down to a finished product. Acme has absorbed the raw material cost increases for the past two seasons. I would have rather seen smaller price increases every year rather than the bigger increases dealers and consumers will see for 2013. Talk about sticker shock.

More innovations in my opinion will drive the price up. As manufacturers start to add more blades and deliver more precise products to increase efficiency the labor costs will rise.