Boeing's insane markups discovered.

[Simon_Jester]

The more important part of that paragraph is that the contract requirement was 3 pins. Three. If you're only providing that kind of quantity annually, no wonder each one costs so much. Heck, the paper used to print out the paperwork relevant to the pins would have cost $50 alone. It's not Boeing's fault if the DoD wants to buy shiny new pins instead of using the ones in stock.

True.