People will pay the high prices, that's why. High volume processing can be done with a motorized trimmer. The actual trimming and forming isn't labor intensive, it's the lubing and cleaning part that sucks. If you are shooting a bolt rifle, buying 1K and being set might be the ticket. Otherwise use a small lathe type trimmer and use a pipe cutter to take it off at the shoulder. That's how I did it before I got a Dillon trimmer.