Not if you think in terms of a business trying to make ANYmoney. Again, think about the market size. Bipes make up less than 5% of the pattern planes out there, so instead of selling 100, they'll be lucky to sell 10 or 20. Now think about the hours involved with creating cad cutting drawings for all 740 laser cut parts mentioned. You're talking a LOTof man hours... 1000's. Not including design, building, test flying, redesign, etc. Do that even at minumum wage and you have a very large investment to recover in 10 - 20 sales. Point is you CAN'T recover it. Any one doing this at this level is doing it for the love of the hobby and hoping to make enough money to keep their hobby alive.

Is the actual "Cost" of the finished kit valued that high?? No... But you can't assume all the labor to design and create the first kit is free.