What we paid Hintsteiner compared to their commercial pricing does warrant a big thank you to them. Knowing what we paid, and what I'd expect to pay for producing these kinds of moulds, I suspect we saved about as much as we spent. Remember they took our 3D model and did the industrial design from that to design parts that are actually producable, as well as then making the moulds from that, as well as all the prototyping along the way. From our side, we are pleased that they are proud enough to put their name onto the cases, and feel that it is not disproprortionate to their contribution.
So the whole asked crowdfunding amount for the case (~66k Euro) was already fitted to Hintsteiner "doubling" that amount in the end, otherwise the crowdfunding campaign would have asked for ~130k Euro?