I think it is a safe bet that it costs them more than that to manufacture the cable. One must also add in parts storage, procurement, personnel to do that job and of course all the expense such entails.



What was the overall sales volume invloved, worldwide? That can affect the price. If they made a lot of them, the cost would be less per unit.

But it is more likely the case that the engineer for your car audio company specified a readily available standardized cable, which would indeed cost a lot less due to the fact that many different mfrs likely make the same cable. Again, supply and demand lowers the cost. Not company ripoff conspiracy theories.



I wish you lots of luck on that, for if the Yamaha cable is not wired the same, there is indeed the possibility that plugging in that new cable could damage the keyboard's circuitry. If you can't get hold of the actual pinout information from Yamaha, this is a risk to your much more expensive keyboard. But then you will never get a chance to rant about the high cost of Yamaha keyboard factory authorized service.



A multibillion dollar corporation, one of the largest in the world, is taking the time to scheme out how to greedily make money off of a replacement cable for a keyboard.

Right.