On the Lee site they are $5.00 "per set". So, not 12 to 16 dollars a set. Since they come with the new dies there's no extra cost. I might whine about Lee myself if I had paid out the nose for other products. The fact is I've been reloading and using almost exclusively Lee products for years and have loaded (honestly) tens of thousands of rounds on Lee equipment and have never had a problem with them. The people who seem to have the greatest issues with them are the guys who don't actually use them.