I have said before that I believe Chrysler has sold the rights to the codes to a third party who has decided to get a good return on investment while they can. We have to face the fact that after twelve to fifteen years most models of cars will have been scrapped because of rust, usage or accident.
If you had some rights to the average car models you would have slim pickings to profit from.
Needswings has no liability to inform us where they are purchasing these parts so I could be wrong in my assumption and like most they will add a certain percentage of their part cost to determine the final consumer cost. Therefore the higher the cost the higher their profit, that’s just business and good luck to them as they want to stay in business.
They did warn us of an impending price rise, and some of us took advantage of the chance to get the part on sale. I too would like to see the SKREEM replaced or cheaper as how long mine will last is impossible to say.
I suspect that in some cases the part that fails is a cheap item but to find the problem would cost time and money and in some cases it would be found that the info stored had been corrupted. If the motherboard on your computer fails you just toss it and upgrade the computer in most cases.