Their trying to tell us that piece of moulded plastic cist $10,000?
But ... it’s really good plastic.
No. They are trying to tell us it cost that much.
'They're' so FOS their eyes are brown and their breath stinks. It's no wonder they need $10,000 toilet seats.
If the tooling was destroyed and had to be rebuilt, it might. Years ago, when the anti-defense left made the cost of spare parts a regular hit piece against the Reagan defense budget, that was a recurring issue. It gets very expensive to keep very old aircraft in the air. The production run on a plane had ended. The proposed replacement fell into the black hole of perpetual RD&D. The Democrats stalled endlessly on ever putting anything new into production. The fleet got older and older. Stocks of spare parts were depleted. Then we'd start to cannibalize planes. But eventually, a new part had to be manufactured.
A toilet seat cover (unlike any number of other parts that sometimes came into controversy) shouldn't require anything sophisticated, but if one has to retool to produce one or three or five parts, it still gets expensive. I don't know how 3-D printing changes the equation.
“Their trying to tell us that piece of moulded plastic cist $10,000?”
No, the engineers who had to redesign and recertify it for flight use, those guys cost 10k and it is cheap.