Know enough about supply and demand marketing to understand that these guys, as a middle man, have to make a quid. Unfortunately Australian salaries being what they are, to manufacture these here would perhaps take 2-3 man hours and maybe more. Add the cost of the materials, suitable packaging, freight to capital cities, fixed overheads etc. as a basis for a landed cost, then after marking up for profit that allows you to eat, you would be looking at a retail price of upwards of $600 for small volume manufacture per piece.
As we all know, we all look for cheapest cost with best quality and unfortunately you seldom get the both words (cheap and best) together in the same sentence. I am as parochial as the next Australian, probably more so with my Northern UK heritage. The town I come from has 34% + unemployment- some families haven't had work since the Greengrocer's daughter was mistakenly swept to power in a wave of national fervour not seen since the war years. Yet, you can't help but get the feeling that Australia as a manufacturing nation is coughing up blood, if not completely dead. Looking at the follies foisted on the Brits, I see a parallel with the old country, just 20 years out of step and it chills me to think that faceless politicians sit around on their arses seeing what happened there and are just letting it happen here without the merest hint of a whimper. Sure some outmoded and feather bedded industries needed to go but several babies are being thrown out in the smelly bath water here.
For me, the box sits in the study where I left it. I am not even all that interested in what these things look like and will get around to evaluation when what I am feeling wears off. I am by no means a left wing patriot, but if we don't do something as a country soon to combat loss of Australian manufacture it will not matter a jot when the ones that are still lucky enough to have a job are all working for overseas companies and little benefit flows to the country's populace. It shouldn't just take a dummy like me to realise this. Far smarter minds than I have the ability to induce a change, yet no matter which side of the political divide we find ourselves, we keep electing people who fiddle whilst Canberra burns.
Recommend that you do call your supplier and confirm with them.
I just had a thought 
