I think that me mentioning the $64 figure at all may have been a bad move on my part, I should have just mentioned the $64+tax which is $73.50, which is the real base cost. Then I was just bumping that to $80 for the rest of the things I need + about $2 so that when I collect from about 40 people I'd have $80 to buy a case for myself. I was trying to be transparent about everything but as you mentioned, then it looks like there's a bunch of costs being tacked on. Shipping from Canada to US should not add much to the cost of local shipping, because as detailed in the first post, maybe it will cost me $100 to send 30 cases to the US (assuming we get those kinds of numbers) so you only end up paying $3.33 extra for the non-local shipping part.
The shipping costs for imsto's case was $35, which is more than what shipping will cost for these (for US and Canadians at least), so if anything I could use that as an argument in my favor. But ignoring that, we're looking at $80 vs $140, then mkawa said that anodizing costs $10-20 so taking the midpoint it's about $95 vs $140. You also have to consider that imsto only had something like 14 cases to sell, so even if it was a good deal for the cost, it simply wasn't available. And though the cases I make will definitely not look as nice as imsto's, the PCB will be better mounted as there is a whole metal plate dedicated to the PCB instead of just having the PCB sit on 5 nuts that were welded onto the base of the case. This dedicated plate also makes the whole thing heavier (which everyone except mkawa likes
So anyways, it's cheaper by a fair amount, available in whatever quantities we need, and not strictly worse in terms of function, only form. I'm not saying any of this out of anger though, so no worries. Geekhackers are picky people as several other forum members often point out (SP's QC, Filco arrows being slightly off, etc) so I can understand people not wanting a metal case that's less than perfect.
Let's not fight about it though, people who aren't interested have their reasons which are perfectly legitimate. Don't make me post more pictures of friendly ponies!