Yeah I suppose better quality materials would make sense, but surely with greater demand manufacturing costs would lower...? I'll have to stew on this some more. I know many US stores won't/aren't allowed to ship to Aus, so perhaps it's a 'supporting Aus stockists' sort of thing...

But you're right, it's worked out better than sposies in the past - I guess I'll try to remind myself of that when turfing the ones that are past their use by date...nappies lasting two boys, that's really not bad.