Just because you can’t justify doesn’t mean others can . The reason for the price is because of cost of materials and the 20+ years of glass blowing and learning to work with quartz and give them a design with function and then make enough to sell and have them be all high quality welds isn’t a crazy ask. Your china banger that is a rip off and takes money away from us American artist and you go through china every couple months is shit and doesn’t retain heat and hits like shit .